Dalila Maldonado Caraza

• Delivered innovation portfolios for Mexico ($360M MXN GIS) and Canada ($29M USD GIS) across chocolate and confectionery brands. • Member of the Mexico Executive Committee; co-developed the 3–5 year Strategic Plan and Annual Growth Plan, supporting enterprise-level decision-making. • Led ideation and innovation programs across Chocolate, Spicy Candy, Flavored Milk, Grocery, and Food Service business units. • Developed regional R&D strategy and optimized organizational structure to balance consumer needs, P&L performance, regulatory requirements, and manufacturing capabilities. • Drove global innovation programs in collaboration with R&D teams in US, India, China, Brazil, and Canada (sugar-reduced chocolate, coffee innovations, plant-based platforms). • Led a 20-person team and managed a $1M USD annual R&D budget. • Reported to Global R&D Director (US) and General Manager (Mexico).

• Led development of next-generation ingredients balancing cost, functionality, nutrition, and regulatory compliance for global snack platforms. • Designed and launched PepsiCo’s first global pulse-based salty snacks portfolio under the Kurkure brand across Asia and Europe. •

Expert in Ingredients functionality for Baked Snacks Lead Portfolio Transformation Projects oriented to Sodium & Sugar Reduction. Coordinate productivity projects and develop of alternate suppliers for different categories of ingredients: Wheat Flours, Fruit Marmalades, Starches, Fibers and Enzymes Boost ingredients specifications and support quality issues Give technical support to R&D Product during the development of new formulations Analyze market/ competitors trends in order to identify potential ingredients opportunities Analysis of Cost- Benefit of the projects, timelines and budget estimation

Expert in the formulation of Healthy Snacks with specific nutrients restrictions and high contents of oat and fiber. Development and Implementation of this projects: Stila LE, Sandwich Quaker and Fruit Bars

• Development and Implementation of Low Sat Fat and Trans Free Fat for Biscuits Porfolio Expert in a wide selection of baked technologies:Wirecut, Rotary molded, Co-extruded, laminated, fermentation, wafers, cereals bars. • Responsable for product scale up at Pilot Plant and Plant. • Definition of process conditions and finish product specifications.

• Technical support to solve Product Quality Issues through the analysis of Statistical Process control and Process audits by different technologies: Wirecut, Co-extruded and Wafer. • Give technical support to R&D USA Team during the execution of Product and Packaging Trials. • Give technical support during the launching of new products and startup of new production lines. • Following up to Quality Audits and Consumer complaints and developing of corrective actions plans. • Collaborate in the Trainings to the key personal in: ingredients functionality, mixing, machining and baking process for different technologies. • Collaborate in the startup of Wafer Stixs Covered with Real Chocolate • Participate in a Task Force to reduce Quality and Process Issues in the chocolate enrobing line.

• Give support to Sensorial Analysis of Powder Milk, Condensed Milk, Baby Cereals and Raw Materials. • Updating Instructions and Procedures to Powder Milk, Condensed Milk and Cans Factories according to Nestle Quality Systems.

• Supported the corrective maintenance of crystallizers, evaporators, filters and clarifiers. • Balance of Material and energy estimations. • Coordinated the water treatment used for boilers. • Process monitoring to assure sugar quality. • Design of a pumping system for syrup cane.