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Scott Perkins
BCom, LLB (Hons)
INDEPENDENT CHAIR
Background and experience: Scott is an experienced public company director and has
extensive Australian and international experience as a leading corporate advisor on
strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and capital market matters. He held senior executive
leadership positions at Deutsche Bank from 1999 to 2013, including; Managing Director
and Head of Corporate Finance for Australia and New Zealand, membership of the Asia
Pacific Corporate and Investment Bank Management Committee and Chief Executive
Officer of Deutsche Bank New Zealand.
Other roles: Chair of Origin Energy since October 2020 (Director since September 2015)
and Director of Brambles (since June 2015).
Appointed Chair: 26 October 2022
Committees:
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Appointed Director: 1 September 2014
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Maxine Brenner
BA, LLB
Background and experience: Maxine has extensive corporate advisory experience,
particularly in mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructures. She is a former
Managing Director of Investment Banking at Investec Bank Limited Australia. She also
practised as a corporate lawyer with Freehill Hollingdale & Page (now Herbert Smith
Freehills) and spent several years as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at both the
University of NSW and the University of Sydney. She was previously a Director of Orica
Limited (April 2013 to December 2022) and Growthpoint Properties Australia Limited
(March 2012 to November 2020).
Other roles: Director of Qantas Airways Limited (since August 2013), Origin Energy
(since November 2013), Telstra Group Limited (since February 2023) and a member
of the University of NSW Council.
Appointed: 1 December 2020
Committees: A R P N
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Board of Directors
MBA, LLB, BComm (Acc)
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Brad Banducci
Background and experience: Brad was appointed Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer in February 2016. Prior to this appointment, Brad was Managing Director
of Woolworths Food Group from March 2015, and was Director of the Group's Drinks
business between 2012 and 2015. Brad joined the Group in 2011 following the acquisition
of the Cellarmasters Group, where he was Chief Executive Officer of Cellarmasters
from 2007 to 2011. Prior to this, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Director at Tyro
Payments and a Vice President and Director with The Boston Consulting Group, where
he was a core member of their retail practice for 15 years.
Appointed: 26 February 2016
BA Economics, MBA
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jennifer Carr-Smith
Background and experience: Jennifer is a seasoned board director and online
retail executive with experience across organisations undergoing rapid growth and
transformation in a number of sectors, including consumer packaged goods, apparel and
grocery. Jennifer has over 25 years' experience with diverse organisations from start-ups
to large global companies. She is currently Chief Operating Officer of Athena Consumer
Acquisition Corporation. She has previously held roles as Senior Vice President, General
Manager of North America Local at Groupon, President and CEO of Peapod, an online
grocery delivery service and director of Full Harvest (January 2020 to December 2022).
Other roles: Chair of Blue Apron since September 2021 (Director since October 2020),
Local Bounty Corporation (since April 2023) and Perdue Farms (since February 2019).
Appointed: 17 May 2019 Committees: R S N
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Warwick Bray
BSci (Hons), MBA
INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Background and experience: Warwick has extensive finance and strategy expertise,
bringing decades of experience from the international telecommunications, technology
and media sectors. He was the former Chief Financial Officer of Telstra, and held various
senior roles at Telstra, including Group Managing Director Mobile and Wireline Products,
and Executive Director, Head of Corporate Strategy. Earlier in his career he was a Partner
with McKinsey in Europe and was Managing Director and Head of Telecommunications
Equity Research with JP Morgan and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Other roles: Non-executive director of Spark New Zealand Limited since 2019.
Appointed: 1 March 2023
Committees: A N
Philip Chronican
BCom (Hons), MBA (Dist), GAICD, SF Fin INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Background and experience: Philip has extensive strategic, financial and management
expertise. He was responsible for the Retail and Commercial business of the Australia and
New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) in Australia. Prior to joining ANZ, Mr Chronican had
a long career at Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac), including the roles of Group CFO
of Westpac and Group Executive of its institutional business consecutively. He also served as
NAB Interim Group CEO from March to November 2019. Philip also has broad experience in M&A
activity and post-merger integration, and has taken an active and public role in advocating
for greater transparency and ethics in banking and promoting workforce diversity.
Other roles: Chair of NAB since November 2019 (Director since May 2016).
Committees: A
Appointed: 1 October 2021
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Key: A
Audit and Finance
Committee
Risk Committee
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People Committee
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Sustainability
Committee
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