Company Overview

The principal activities of the Group during the Year were the provision of supply chain logistics solutions, focusing on the provision of reusable pallets and containers, of which Brambles is a leading global provider.

Directors and Management

Dr Nora Lia Scheinkestel

Non-Executive Director 01/06/2020

Dr Scheinkestel is an experienced company director and is currently the Chair of Atlas Arteria Limited and a Non-Executive Director of its stapled entity, Atlas Arteria International Ltd, a Non-Executive Director of Telstra (where, from 2012 to 2019, she was its Audit & Risk Committee Chair) and a NonExecutive Director of AusNet Services Limited (where she is currently Chair of its Audit & Risk Committee). Previously, she was a director of a number of other major ASX listed companies where in many cases she chaired their audit committees. Dr Scheinkestel is also an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Business School at Melbourne University, a Trustee of Victorian Arts Centre Trust and a former member of the Takeovers Panel. In 2003, Dr Scheinkestel was awarded a centenary medal for ervices to Australian society in business leadership.

LLB (Hons), PhD, FAICD, Female

Mr John Patrick Mullen

Non-Executive Director,Non-Executive Chairman 01/11/2019

Mr Mullen is currently Chairman of Telstra, a Director of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP and holds the role of Chairman of the unlisted entity, Toll Group.

MBA, BE, BSc Male

Mr Kenneth Stanley McCall

Non-Executive Director 06/07/2020

Mr McCall is an experienced business and consumer services executive, with experience in operations and logistics. Until his recent retirement Ken was the Deputy Group CEO for Europcar Mobility Group, a car and van rental business listed on Euronext Paris. He is also an experienced non-executive director having served two terms on the board of Superdry plc and is currently the Senior Independent Director at Post Office Limited. Prior to his role at Europcar Ken was the Chief Executive of DHL Express UK and Ireland. Over his career Ken has held executive roles that have exposed him to a range of markets across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Male

Mr Anthony (Tony) Grant Froggatt

Non-Executive Director 01/06/2006

Mr Froggatt is Chairman of Foodbank Australia. Previously, Tony was a Non-Executive Director of Coca-Cola Amatil, AXA Asia Pacific Holdings and Billabong International and was Chief Executive Officer of Scottish & Newcastle plc from May 2003 to October 2007. He began his career with the Gillette Company and has held a wide range of sales, marketing and general management positions in many countries with major consumer goods companies including H.J. Heinz, Diageo and Seagram.

LLB, MBA Male

Mr Scott Perkins

Non-Executive Director 01/06/2015

Mr Perkins is a Non-Executive Director of Woolworths Group Limited and Origin Energy and was a Director of Meridian Energy from 1999 to 2002. He is a Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art and is active in the charity and public policy sector as the founder or director of a number of organisations. Scott has extensive experience in corporate strategy, capital markets and investment banking. He held senior executive leadership positions at Deutsche Bank from 1999 to 2013, including as Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance for Australia and New Zealand and as a member of the Asia-Pacific management committee.

MBA, BCom, LLB(Hons) Male

Ms Tahira Hassan

Non-Executive Director 14/12/2011

Ms Hassan is a Non-Executive Director of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and was previously a Non-Executive Director of Recall Holdings. She had a distinguished 26-year career with Nestle. From 2003 to 2006, she was Senior Vice President & Head of Global Supply Chain. Based in Switzerland, this was a new role created to lead the reshaping of Nestle's global approach to supply chain management. Her other roles included Senior Vice President & Global Business Head for Nescafe Ready to Drink from 2006 to 2009, and Vice President, Deputy Operations, Zone Americas from 2001 to 2003. Previously, Tahira held various leadership positions in Nestle Canada including President, Ice Cream and Executive Vice President, Consumer Demand Chain & Information Services.

FCIMA, CMSMA Female

Mr George El Zoghbi

Non-Executive Director 01/01/2016

Mr Zoghbi has international consumer packaged goods and supply-chain experience. He is based in Chicago, USA, and is currently a Special Advisor to and a Director of Kraft Heinz Company and a Strategic Advisor to Altimetrika, a US based digital and IT solutions company. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of US commercial businesses for Kraft Heinz Company from the merger of Kraft Foods Group and H.J. Heinz in July 2015 until October 2017. Prior to that merger, George held a number of key leadership roles at Kraft including Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Kraft in 2007, he held a number of executive roles with Fonterra Cooperative and various managerial and sales roles with Associated British Foods.

DipBus&Mark , MEnterprise Male

Mr Graham Andrew Chipchase

Chief Executive Officer,Executive Director 20/02/2017

Mr Chipchase was Chief Executive Officer of Rexam plc. from 2010 to June 2016. Graham had first joined Rexam in 2003 as Group Finance Director before moving to Group Director of Plastic Packaging. Graham left Rexam in June 2016. He is also a Non-Executive Director of AstraZeneca plc, chair of its Remuneration Committee and its Senior Independent Director. He holds an MA (Hons) Chemistry from Oriel College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

FAICD , MA(Chem Hons) Male

Ms Nessa O'Sullivan

Chief Financial Officer,Executive Director 24/04/2017

Ms O'Sullivan worked for ten years at Coca-Cola Amatil in a number of senior financial and operating roles, including Group Chief Financial Officer from 2010 to May 2015. She was also Group Chief Financial Officer for Operations and Chief Financial Officer for Australia and New Zealand. Nessa began her career working as an auditor at Price Waterhouse in Dublin, New York and Sydney. She spent two years at Tyco Grinnell Asia Pacific before joining PepsiCo/Yum! Restaurants in 1995. Over a 10-year period at Yum! Restaurants International, she held a number of senior finance, IT and strategy roles, including five years as Chief Financial Officer for the South Pacific Region.

FCA , BCom , GAICD Female

Ms Elizabeth Fagan

Non-Executive Director 01/06/2018

Ms Fagan has experience in the international retail sector. She is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Boots UK & Ireland. Previously, she was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Boots, leading all Boots businesses across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Prior to that, Elizabeth was Senior Vice President, Managing Director, International Retail for Walgreens Boots Alliance, from the Company's creation in December 2014 to 2016, Marketing Director of Boots and Managing Director of Boots Opticians, and previously worked for Boots as Group Buyer from 1983 to 1991. Before re-joining the Boots business in 2006, Elizabeth worked for DSG International Plc for 10 years, where she held a number of senior positions, including Marketing Director, Group Marketing Director and Managing Director of The Link.

BSc (Biochem) Female

Mr James(Jim) Richard Miller

Non-Executive Director 15/03/2019

Mr Miller has operational and cross functional supply-chain experience in digital technology. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Wayfair Inc. He has taken a role as interim Chief Technology Officer with Wayfair pending the appointment of a full-time person in that role, which is expected to take place in four to six months' time. In addition, Jim is currently a Non-Executive Director of The RealReal, Inc., also a US ecommerce company. Jim has held a number of senior executive roles including Vice President, Worldwide Operations for Google Inc from 2010 to 2018, where he was responsible for global operations, planning, supply chain and new product introduction for Google's IT infrastructure and Google Fiber.

Male

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