Christine Holgate
Chief Executive Officer
Christine has over 24 years of international sales and marketing experience working in highly regulated industries, including telecommunications, finance, media and healthcare. Christine was appointed to her current role as Chief Executive Officer by the Board in November 2008. She has held numerous board and senior management positions working in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Christine’s prime responsibilities have been leading teams through significant change, growth and start up. Christine has three post graduate diplomas in Management, Marketing, and Purchasing and Supply; and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA). Christine is also currently a board member of Aurora Television Limited.
Chris Last
Chief Financial Officer
Chris joins Blackmores with over 20 years of experience in finance roles across the consumer and manufacturing industries. His most recent role was Unilever Australasia’s Director of Finance for Brand and Customer Development. Chris has also held senior positions with the Richemont Group of global brands including Cartier, Dunhill and Montblanc. Chris holds an honours degree in Management, is a qualified accountant and is a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He has a wealth of experience in the financial management of consumer products and global brand management.
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Peter Barraket
Director Australia
Peter joined Blackmores in 2004 and was appointed Director Australia in May 2009 with responsibility for Australian sales, marketing, education and training and customer service. Prior to that, Peter was Blackmores’ Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for leading a number of development and improvement initiatives across the business. During his 15 year career he has developed a broad range of knowledge and skills in the area of financial and business strategy.
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Richard Henfrey
Director Strategic Sourcing
Richard has over 15 years of experience in strategic and business development roles in highly regulated industries both in Australia, Europe and North America. He has delivered a broad range of growth-driving strategies that optimised performance and created business solutions for numerous organisations.
He is experienced in developing communications and people programs with proven success. Most recently he has worked for Telstra Corporation in a number of roles focused on business improvement and growth.
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Kerry Cunningham
Acting Director People & Strategy
Kerry Cunningham is an acting member of the Executive Team at Blackmores. Her current role is Acting Director People & Strategy. Prior to this role commencing, Kerry held the position of Head of Australian Sales. Kerry had been in this role for 18 months and through effective sales strategies has helped deliver double digit growth in the business this year. Her career at Blackmores has spanned 20 years where she commenced as a Customer Service Operator and has moved through the business in Sales and Marketing roles. Her passions in the business include customer focus, staff engagement, development and achieving results.
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Sue Moore
Director Products, Development and Innovation
Sue has been involved in several strategic projects at Blackmores in recent months, was a key contributor to the organisational review and has a strong understanding of our business. Sue has more than 20 years of experience in consumer healthcare and global product marketing.
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Peter Osborne
Director Asia
Peter brings more than 18 years of experience, most recently in Beijing, running the Australian Trade Commission’s operations in China. He has extensive experience in trade development, export facilitation, regional trade arrangements and in developing successful market entry, promotional and marketing strategies for products and services in Asia.
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Alison Quesnel
General Manager – New Zealand
Alison has been the General Manager of our business in NZ since 2000. She has considerable management and export experience across a range of categories, sectors and channels. Alison was recently elected to the Board of Natural Products New Zealand, the industry association for dietary supplements in NZ.
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Lee Richards
Chief of Operations
Lee has more than 30 years of experience in IT, spanning a variety of industries from distribution and manufacturing through to corporate banking. He has been with Blackmores since 2000 and, as part of the team assembled to manage the design and rollout of Blackmores’ new business system, Lee brought a significant level of technical, management and business expertise with him.
He was appointed Chief Technology Officer in February 2001.
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