Sara Laporta

About Sara Laporta

Sara LaPorta is a British executive at Société BIC, where she serves as Group Strategy & Business Development Officer, also described as Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer. She joined BIC in October 2019 and became part of the Executive Committee in 2020, as the company reinforced its leadership team to support a broader transformation agenda. In this role, she is responsible for shaping group strategy, organizing growth priorities, and overseeing mergers and acquisitions, which have become an important lever in the execution of BIC’s Horizon strategy. Before joining BIC, Sara LaPorta built more than 25 years of experience across major international organizations. She started her career at Boston Consulting Group, where she worked on growth-focused assignments for leading retailers and global consumer goods companies, developing a strong foundation in strategy, market analysis, and business transformation. She later spent around ten years at PepsiCo as Senior Vice President, leading and coordinating consumer-driven growth strategies for the beverages business in the Americas and globally. This background gave her a blend of strategic rigor and deep consumer-market insight. At BIC, LaPorta was tasked with building the strategy and business development teams and establishing the M&A capability. Her appointment strengthened the Executive Committee at a time when BIC was accelerating its transformation, with a more structured governance model around growth, capital allocation, and targeted expansion. Her profile combines top-tier strategy consulting, corporate leadership, and expertise in fast-moving consumer goods. She studied at MIT Sloan School of Management.