Nicole Roos is the Chairperson and Managing Director for East and Southern Africa Region Nestlé, having been appointed in 2022.

Roos previously served as the Business Executive Officer for Coffee and Beverages for Nestlé. She began her career as a Marketing Trainee in South Africa twenty years ago and is the first female Managing Director for the region.

Roos started her career at Nestlé in 2002. From 2004, she was appointed as a Brand Manager for Nutrition and took on different roles of increasing responsibility in the category until 2008 when she moved to the United States. There she worked as Product Manager and then Senior Project Manager, Formula and Cereals for Nutrition. In 2010 she returned to South Africa to join the executive leadership team of Southern Africa as Country Business Manager for Infant Nutrition, a role she held for more than six years. Roos then took on her current role as BEO for Coffee and Beverages in 2016 and has grown the business into one of the most successful in the Africa Zone, despite the challenges of operating across multiple markets.