Board and governance

Board of directors

Peter Hearl

Chairman

Appointed:

June 2021

Peter is an experienced listed company director and has extensive business, international and executive leadership experience in the fast-moving consumer goods and energy sectors.

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Peter’s international career included leadership roles for PepsiCo Restaurants and Yum! Brands Inc., including the positions of Executive Vice President International, President of Pizza Hut and Yum!’s global Chief Operations and Development Officer. Prior to moving into the consumer goods industry, Peter held various roles with Exxon in Australia and the United States over an 18 year period.
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Peter is a director of Telstra Corporation Limited and Santos Limited. He is also a trustee of the Stepping Stone Foundation and member of its Investment Committee, and a member of the Australian School of Business Alumni Leaders Group at The University of New South Wales.

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Peter was previously a director of ASX-listed Treasury Wine Estates Limited and Goodman Fielder Limited and the US-based Westport Resources.

Steve Donohue

Chief Executive Officer

Appointed:

June 2020

Steve has over 25 years experience in the retail industry and has a deep appreciation for core retail principles and a strong focus on the customer experience. He has held a broad range of roles in the Endeavour Drinks business since commencing as a store manager at Dan Murphy’s in 1994. As CEO, Steve is focussed on enabling great drinks and hospitality experiences for customers, building the business sustainably and embracing entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Prior to being appointed the Managing Director of Endeavour Drinks in 2018, Steve gained broad experience across the Endeavour drinks business having held senior buying, merchandising and marketing roles at Dan Murphy’s and BWS. Earlier, Steve held the role of Director of Buying and Merchandising for Woolworths Supermarkets.

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Holly Kramer

Non-executive director, Woolworths nominee

Appointed:

June 2021

Holly is an experienced listed company director and has substantial leadership and retail experience.

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Holly is a former Chief Executive of Best & Less. She has had more than 25 years experience in executive and general management and product and marketing roles at Telstra Corporation, Pacific Brands and Ford Motor Company.

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Holly is a director of Woolworths Group Limited, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and Abacus Property Group. Holly is also pro chancellor at Western Sydney University, and a director at GO (Goodes-O’Loughlin) Foundation and The Ethics Centre.

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Holly previously served as deputy chair of Australia Post and as a director of AMP Limited, Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited and 2XU Limited.

Duncan Makeig

Independent, non-executive director

Appointed:

June 2021

Duncan has substantial legal and corporate governance expertise and international experience in the fast-moving consumer goods sector.

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Duncan’s management career spanned over 30 years having held a number of senior leadership positions, included serving as the Managing Director for Lion Asia Dairy and in general counsel, company secretary, corporate and government affairs roles, for Lion Nathan, PepsiCo Australasia/Africa and the Tricon Restaurants (now known as Yum! Brands Inc.), which operates food outlets such as KFC and Pizza Hut.

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He is currently the Chief Executive and co-founder of brand-building consultancy firm, China Road, assisting premium food businesses to establish a presence in the Chinese market.

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Duncan is the chairman of New Zealand-listed company, Good Spirits Hospitality Ltd, chairman of both the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation Ltd and Curing Homesickness Ltd, a director of The Better Bar Company Ltd and Wirrabilla Pastoral Pty Ltd and part owner of the Royal Hotel, Wyong.

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He was previously the chairman of Heineken-Lion Australia and a director of Banksia Wines Ltd and Bevchain Australia Ltd.

Bruce Mathieson Snr

Non-executive director, BMG Nominee

Appointed:

February 2020

Bruce is a pioneer in the Australian hotel, leisure and hospitality sector and a well-respected member of the Australian business community. He has extensive management, transactional and investment experience across several industries, including property development, stockbroking, and tech ventures in security, medical and water management.

Bruce has been involved in acquiring, divesting and the operation of hotels across Australia for over 45 years. He is the former Chief Executive of ALH Group, the joint venture between Woolworths Group and the Mathieson family, which now forms part of Endeavour Group and in which Bruce has a substantial shareholding interest. Prior to entering the hotel business, Bruce had his own metal fabricating business.

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Bruce serves as a director of Mayne Pharma Group Ltd and has been a director of Endeavour Group (formerly ALH Group) since creation of the joint venture. He was previously a director of the Carlton Football Club.

Joe Pollard

Independent, non-executive director

Appointed:

June 2021

Joe has domestic and international experience in telecommunications, technology, media, advertising and sports industries. She has significant understanding of customer management, marketing, cultural transformation and digital disruption.

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Joe was previously a Group Executive of Media and Marketing at Telstra and Chief Executive of Ninemsn and Publicis Mojo. During her 30 year executive career she has held various other leadership roles in sales, marketing, media, digital and content at PBL Media, Nike Inc and Mindshare.

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Joe is now a senior advisor in customer management, technology and marketing communications to a diverse range of clients including Minderoo Foundation, Tattarang, Business Council of Australia and Austrade. She is also a member of Chief Executive Women.

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Joe is a director of Greencross Limited and is a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. She was a former director of Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited, AMP Bank Limited, Michelle Bridge’s 12WBT, iSelect, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Australian Association of National Advertisers.

Colin Storrie

Non-executive director

Appointed:

August 2019

Colin has over 25 years experience in senior finance roles in listed companies, investment banking and government, including in Chief Financial Officer positions at both Qantas Airways Limited and AMP Limited.

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Most recently, Colin was the Managing Director of New Business and Partnerships at Woolworths. Prior to that he held various senior roles at Woolworths and was a member of its executive committee since 2016.

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Colin has been a director of Endeavour Group Limited since 2019 and ALH Group Pty Ltd since 2017. He is also a director of the data and analytics company, The Quantium Group Holdings Pty Ltd and North Queensland Airports.

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Colin was previously a director of UNICEF Australia, AIG Australia Limited, Qantas Airways Limited, Qantas Superannuation Limited and AMP Bank Limited.

Catherine West

Independent, non-executive director

Appointed:

June 2021

Catherine has over 25 years of legal, business affairs and strategy experience in media, entertainment, telecommunications and the medical sectors in Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe.

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Catherine’s most recent executive role was Director of Legal-Content, Commercial and Joint Ventures for Sky Plc in the United Kingdom, where she managed complex corporate and commercial transactions in highly competitive and regulated environments.

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Catherine is currently a strategy and business affairs consultant to media companies internationally and to the healthcare sector.

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Catherine is a director of Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited, Peter Warren Automotive Holdings Limited and Monash IVF Group Limited. She is vice-president of the Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, a director of The National Institute of Dramatic Art and NIDA Foundation Trust and a governor of Wenona School.

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She was previously on the board of Southern Phone Company and was a committee member of British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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