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.

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.

Peter is a director of Santos Limited. He is also a member of the Australian School of Business Alumni Leaders Group at The University of New South Wales and is a trustee of the Stepping Stone Foundation and member of its Investment Committee.

Peter was previously a director of ASX-listed Telstra Corporation Limited, Treasury Wine Estates Limited, Goodman Fielder Limited and 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.

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.

Holly is a director of Woolworths Group Limited, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and Abacus Property Group. She is Pro Chancellor at Western Sydney University, and a director at GO (Goodes-O’Loughlin) Foundation and The Ethics Centre, as well as a member of Bain Advisory Council.

Holly previously served as deputy chair of Australia Post, chair of Lendi Pty Ltd 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.

Duncan’s management career spanned over 30 years, having held a number of senior leadership positions, including 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.

Duncan is currently the Chief Executive and co-founder of brand-building consultancy firm, China Road.

Duncan is the chairman of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation Limited, the Curing Homesickness Limited and New Zealand listed company, Good Spirits Hospitality Limited. He will step down from Good Spirits Hospitality at the end of June 2022. He is also a director of The Better Bar Company Limited and Wirrabilla Pastoral Pty Limited and part owner of the Royal Hotel, Wyong.

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

Anne Brennan

Independent Non-executive Director

Appointed:

June 2022

Anne is an experienced public company director, with deep financial and business experience across a wide-range of industries. She will assume the role of Chair of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Management Committee in August 2022.

Anne has held a variety of senior management roles in both professional accounting firms and large corporations. She was the Finance Director of Coates Group and the Chief Financial Officer of CSR Limited. Prior to her role at CSR, she was a partner of KPMG, Andersen and Ernst & Young.

She is currently a director of Argo Investments Limited, Lotteries Corporation Limited, The GPT Group, NSW Treasury Corporation and Rabobank New Zealand Limited.

She was previously a director of Charter Hall Group, Tabcorp Limited, Spark Infrastructure Group, Metcash Limited, Nufarm Limited, Myer Holdings Limited and Echo Entertainment Group Limited.

Joe Pollard

Independent Non-executive Director

Appointed:

June 2021

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

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.

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

Joe is a director of Greencross Limited and is a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. She is also director of oOH!media Limited and a member of its Remuneration and Nomination Committee. She serves as a director of Washington H Soul Pattison and Company Limited and RACAT Group. Joe was previously a director of Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited, AMP Bank Limited, Michelle Bridge’s 12WBT, I-Select, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and 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.

Until June 2021, Colin was the Managing Director of New Business and Partnerships at Woolworths. Prior to that, he held various senior roles at Woolworths and had been a member of its executive committee from 2016.

Colin has been a director of Endeavour Group Limited since 2019 and ALH Group Pty Ltd since 2017. He is Chairman of PFD Food Services Limited, and is also a director of The Quantium Group Holdings Pty Ltd (data and analytics) and North Queensland Airports. He is also an Investment Committee member of W23 Pty Ltd (Venture Investments) and an Advisory Board Member with Commencer Capital.

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

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