Boeing, Google, Pepsico in breakfast meeting with Modi

Big time business will be on the table during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's breakfast meeting on Sep 29 in New York with top US firms, including Boeing, Google and Pepsico.

Modi, who travels to the US from Sep 26-30, will hold a breakfast meeting with the CEOs of 11 top US companies on Sep 29 and later in the day hold one-on-one meetings with six individual CEOs of US companies and institutions.

On the list of one-on-one meetings are: W. James (Jim) McNerney Jr, chairman of Boeing, Laurence D. Fink, CEO of American multinational investment management firm Black Rock; Ginni Rometty, president and CEO of IBM; Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric; Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and Henry Kravis, CEO of American private equity fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. (KKR).

Modi would in the morning have a breakfast meeting with 11 leading individual CEOs, including Google's Eric Schmidt, David M. Rubenstein of The Carlyle Group, Michael Corbat, CEO of Citigroup, Doug Oberhelman of Caterpillar Inc, Indra Nooyi of Pepsico and Micheal Ball of Hospira Inc., a US-based global pharmaceutical company and Kenneth C. Frazier of Merck and Co.