{"id":208811,"date":"2026-03-17T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208811\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:29:07","slug":"dallas-business-hall-of-fame-honors-pepsicos-steven-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208811\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Business Hall of Fame honors PepsiCo&#8217;s Steven Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Business Hall of Fame celebrates community business leaders and raises funds to support JA Dallas&#8217; mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jadallas.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Junior Achievement of Dallas<\/a> is honoring four leaders at the <a href=\"https:\/\/jadallasbusinesshalloffame.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Business Hall of Fame<\/a>, including Planoite Steven Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is the executive vice president and vice chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/pepsico-celebrates-30\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PepsiCo<\/a>. According to a news release, he has strengthened PepsiCo\u2019s commercial capabilities and long\u2011term growth agenda while serving on boards including State Farm, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, and UT Southwestern, and is widely recognized for pairing strategic leadership with a deep commitment to community impact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEach of these honorees is an outstanding leader in their field and a powerful example of how business can be a force for good,\u201d said Chris LaTurno, president and CEO of<a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/ja-dallas-pesh-honor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Junior Achievement of Dallas<\/a>. \u201cTheir stories of innovation, leadership and service will inspire our students to dream big and build strong futures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Business Hall of Fame has raised over $7 million since its inception, providing local students with experiences in financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at the Omni Dallas Hotel on March 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Business Hall of Fame celebrates community business leaders and raises funds to support JA Dallas&#8217; mission.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-208811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}