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Board of Directors

David A Crawford B.Com., LLB, FCA, FCPA
Member of the Board since August 2001 and Chairman since November 2007.  He is an independent Director.

Mr Crawford has extensive experience in risk management and business reorganisation, having worked with governments and major corporations. He is a former partner and National Chairman of KPMG and is on the Advisory Board of Allens Arthur Robinson.  Mr Crawford is Chairman of Lend Lease Corporation Limited and is a Director of BHP Billiton Limited.  Until December 2007, Mr Crawford was a Director of Westpac Banking Corporation and until June 2005, he was Chairman of National Foods Limited.

Mr Crawford is the Chairperson of the Succession Committee and a member of the Human Resources Committee.

Ian D Johnston B.Com.
Member of the Board since September 2007 and Chief Executive Officer since September 2008. 

Mr Johnston has extensive experience in the international food and beverage industry with Unilever in Australia, Canada and Europe and Cadbury Schweppes in Australia and the UK.  Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was Managing Director Global Confectionery and Board Director of Cadbury Schweppes plc based in London.  Since leaving Cadbury Schweppes, Mr Johnston has advised a broad group of private companies and was briefly a non-executive Director of Coles Group Limited in 2001.  Mr Johnston is a Director of Goodman Fielder Limited.

 

M Lyndsey Cattermole AM, B.Sc., FACS
Member of the Board since October 1999. She is an independent Director.

Mrs Cattermole has extensive information technology and telecommunications experience. She was a former Executive Director of Aspect Computing Pty Ltd and Kaz Group Limited.  She has also held a number of significant appointments to government, hospital and research boards and committees.  Mrs Cattermole is a Director of Tattersall's Limited.

Mrs Cattermole is the Chairperson of the Risk and Compliance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.

Paul A Clinton Business Administration DipIT
Member of the Board since March 2008. He is an independent Director.

Mr Clinton has extensive experience with distribution systems in the United States and Canada.  From 1988 he held a number of senior roles with the Diageo Group, and its predecessors, culminating in 2000 with his appointment as President and CEO of Diageo North America.  Prior to his retirement in 2003, Mr Clinton also sat on the Board of Directors of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.

Mr Clinton is a member of the Risk and Compliance Committee.

Max G Ould B.Ec.
Member of the Board since February 2004. He is an independent Director.

Mr Ould has extensive experience in the fast moving consumer goods industry. He was the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Foods Limited and is the former Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Dunlop's Peters Foods division and Managing Director of the East Asiatic Company.  Mr Ould is a Director of AGL Energy Limited, Pacific Brands Limited and Chairman of Goodman Fielder Limited.  Until October 2006, Mr Ould was a Director of the Australian Gas Light Company.

Mr Ould is the Chairperson of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Succession Committee and the Audit Committee. 

Michael J Ullmer BSc(Maths) (Hons), FCA, SF Fin.
Member of the Board since July 2008. He is an independent Director.

Mr Ullmer has extensive strategic, financial and management experience over a 30 year career in international banking and finance.  Since 2004 he has been an Executive Director of the National Australia Bank.  He is a former Chief Financial Officer of the Bank and is now the Bank's Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer.  From 1982 until 1992 Mr Ullmer worked with KPMG in London, the US and Australia and then joined Coopers and Lybrand to lead their Asia Pacific Financial Services Group.  In 1997 he joined the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as Group Chief Financial Officer and then Group Executive with responsibility for Institutional and Business Banking.

Mr Ullmer is the Chairperson of the Audit Committee and a member of the Risk and Compliance Committee.