Sir Ivan Menezes, the CEO of Diageo and one of the FTSE 100’s longest-serving leaders, has died after a brief illness, the company said today. He was 63.
He died days after emergency surgery for conditions including a stomach ulcer, which suffered complications. Born in July 1959 in Pune, India, and educated St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, he was due to retire from the multinational he helped transform at the end of this month. He was married with two children.
