Board of Managers and Officer Biographies
Ronald E. Harrison
Member, Board of Managers
RE/MAX, LLC
Some of Ron’s key roles at PepsiCo included: Director of Special Marketing for Pepsi in the Mid-West (66-68); Director, responsible for Pepsi’s sales training and manpower development-working with the companies Franchise operations in the development of their management systems(69-71); Area Vice President, responsible for all Pepsi product sales/distribution in New York City (74-78); Division Vice President, responsible for all Pepsi-Cola product sales/distribution in Pepsi’s company owned operations in New England, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Orlando (79-81); Vice President, responsible for all Community Affairs throughout the PepsiCo system (86-99); and as PepsiCo’s Senior Vice President responsible for Global Diversity and Inclusion (2000-2003).
Harrison served on a number of corporate advisory boards, including the National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, The Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility, and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He also served on the Board of Trustees at the College of New Rochelle (NY), and currently serves on the Industry Advisory Board for the University of New Hampshire’s William Rosenberg Center of Franchising. He is a past chairman of the International Franchise Association (IFA), and is Founding Chairman of the Diversity Institute of IFA.
Harrison and his wife Sharon reside in Burke, Virginia. They have 3 children and five grand-children.