PAW BY BLACKMORES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Managing Director
- Blackmores As Group CEO and Managing Director
Alastair joined Blackmores as Group CEO and Managing Director in September 2019. He is a global business leader and brand builder with more than 24 years of consumer goods experience in health and beauty across multiple geographies.
Alastair spent 10 years in a wide range of sales and marketing roles with Nestlé and Gillette in Australia, before joining Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 2005 and moving to Singapore in 2008 where he was responsible for strategy and planning across APAC for the beauty and grooming categories. During this time he led global and regional teams, including as China Managing Director for Wella based in Shanghai.
In 2016, Alastair joined Coty as part of the merger between P&G specialty beauty brands and the former Coty company, helping to transform it into the third largest beauty company in the world. In his last role at Coty, he was Senior Vice President of APAC, Latin America and the Middle East.
Alastair has a Bachelor of Economics and a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Business from Monash University, and studied Mandarin while living and working in Shanghai. He is passionate about finding ways to connect more people to holistic health solutions, believing that healthy people and their pets naturally lead to a healthier planet.
The opportunity to work for an Iconic Australian brand, with core values around health, personal well being and passion for its people, compelled Andrew to Join the Blackmores team in June 2022.Andrew has a wealth of experience across Supply Chain and Operations spanning a 25 + year career that has seen him work for some of the largest FMCG / CPG and Food companies across many locations throughout the world. He has worked for Kimberly Clark, Procter & Gamble, Mondelez and most recently with the J R Simplot Company.
Over the past 17 years, Andrew's career has taken him to many countries and regions across the world. Outside of his home country, he has worked & lived in Thailand, Singapore and the US. Andrew also holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Technology in Sydney.
Having experienced many unique and wonderful cultures, Andrew values diversity and believes that high performing teams are built around people that come from all backgrounds that are empowered to do their best every day.
Job Titles:
- Chief Governance Officer
- Chartered Secretary
Cecile is extremely proud of sustainability and good governance at Blackmores, championing both throughout her 30-year career with us across several senior roles. As Chief Governance Officer, Cecile is responsible for regulatory affairs, medical and product safety, government and public affairs and WHS.
As one of Blackmores' longest serving employees, Cecile knows the business inside out. Over recent years, she has been especially passionate about embedding sustainability across the business, explaining that ‘Our founder Maurice Blackmore knew that you can't have healthy people without a healthy planet and this still underpins everything we do today. However, it's important to realise that sustainability extends beyond minimising our carbon footprint to sourcing responsibly, leading industry change and improving overall wellbeing for everyone.'
Cecile is a Chartered Secretary and a Certified Practicing Accountant. She has a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves on the Governance Institute of Australia's Legislation Review Committee. Always one to give back, Cecile is the Chairman of CCNB Limited and her community work was recognised with a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow in 2015.
Why Blackmores Group? Growing up, my family's health solutions were most often found in the local health food shop and Blackmores products were our first choice. Finding health solutions from nature just feels right to me and it's exciting to work for a company that I have always trusted.
Job Titles:
- Chief Brand, Innovation and Communications Officer
Holding a stellar track record in global brand building and innovation, Joanne drives marketing excellence and consumer-led innovation for Blackmores Group. With over two decades of commercial and global marketing leadership expertise, Joanne's key strengths include business and brand development, consumer-centric global growth strategies and transformational organisational change.
"Consumers globally are increasingly focussed on natural health, wellness and living stronger for longer and Blackmores has an impressive pioneering history of supporting consumers in their health and wellness goals," explains Joanne, who has deep experience in Asian markets key to Blackmores Group.
Joanne's former roles include Global Marketing Director at DuluxGroup, driving the Selley's brand across Australia, NZ, Asia and the UK; Regional Director for Johnson & Johnson (Asia); and Global Marketing Director for Unilever (USA), leading the Dove brand globally. She has an MBA with an International Business major.
Why Blackmores Group? I've used many Blackmores products and love that Blackmores is a purpose-led organisation. I have admired the Blackmores brand for many years. Blackmores has a strong history of innovation and of supporting consumers with efficacious natural health solutions - I am so impressed with the quality of the Blackmores brand and believe it has enormous potential for growth.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director APAC & Chief Commercial Officer
John is an energetic and transformational leader with a proven track record of delivering results in tough and highly competitive environments. He has more than 25 years' experience as a Senior Executive in the food and beverage industry, including with Kellogg's, Campbell Arnott's and, most recently, Beam Suntory as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region as well as Global Travel Retail worldwide.
John is highly skilled in business transformation - delivering results, building high performance work teams and turning struggling businesses around. His speciality areas include general management across sales, marketing, supply chain, product and customer experience, as well as strategic planning and execution, building high performance teams, international development and customer relationship building.
John has lived and worked in several countries and regions including Australia, New Zealand, North America, India, Korea, South-East Asia and China.
Kiran is driven by the desire to create an organisation that lives a culture of safety and wellbeing where employees are truly respected and equipped to manage their career and personal growth. This creates a strong connection to Blackmores Group being a leading natural health company focusing on consumer wellbeing. Kiran has been a senior member of the Blackmores Leadership Team since early 2019 and is a deeply experienced People and Culture practitioner with over 25 years' experience. Prior to Blackmores, Kiran spent over 18 years with Fletcher Building and Diageo where she achieved consistently across portfolios which included transformation, change management, business partnering and industrial relations expertise.
Kiran holds a degree in Psychology and has a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management.
With a strong marketing pedigree and reputation for great brand strategy and business growth, Kitty has more than two decades of experience with blue chip multi-national organisations including General Mills, Mead Johnson, Yum! and Unilever. She has successfully implemented omni channel strategies across e-commerce, including JBP experience with Alibaba and Tencent.
Kitty's strong operating experience in China includes VP, Marketing Strategy & Sales Operation for Mead Johnson Nutrition, where she reshaped the infant and child nutrition product portfolio and sales strategy, achieving double-digit top line growth by gaining share in the winning channels of e-commerce B2C and mother and baby store chains.
Kitty's roll-up her sleeves approach to leadership combined with a MBA means she is passionate about delivering results and keen to foster a performance culture where all team members feel supported to reach their full-potential. She is a strong believer in gender equity and the importance of building a strong pipeline of talent to support future business growth.
Why Blackmores Group? I was motivated by the fact that Blackmores is a purpose-led business. Prior to joining I met many leaders of the company and was impressed by their shared passion for natural health and desire to make a meaningful impact on people's lives.
Must-have health and wellness fix: My Taiwanese background values a natural holistic approach to health. I think we need to guard against the pursuit of the quick fix. My approach to health is grounded in scientific understanding and making slow incremental improvements to improve health and wellness.
Life outside of work: I practice yoga, which is good for my mind and body and gives me an enduring sense of wellbeing. I also love music, movies, and taking long walks with my family. I have two daughters and think it is important to spend time away from mobile phones, so we can talk and understand each other better.
Our founder Maurice Blackmore understood the link between healthy people and a healthy planet, which is still core to who we are today.
A passion for the holistic approach that natural health brings saw Patrick join Blackmores end February 2022 as its Chief Financial Officer.
Patrick is a proven finance and business leader with a +30-year career and over 20-years of consumer products sector experience in Europe, Middle East and Africa, having lived and worked in London, Istanbul and Durban. He has had a diverse global career leading teams in finance and IT and was most recently Group CFO at ASX-listed bathrooms and kitchens designer and supplier GWA Group Ltd. Prior to working at GWA, Patrick was Group CFO at, the then ASX-listed, Goodman Fielder and before that held senior roles at Brambles Limited and Unilever Plc. Patrick has a track record of driving significant business transformation and improvement and delivering sustainable profitable growth.
Patrick has a Bachelor of Economics degree, is a Fellow of: the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Governance Institute of Australia.
Job Titles:
- Head of Communications
- Blackmores Group Communications
Job Titles:
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Deputy CEO
- Its Executive Officer
With Kirin's health science business vision, "To become a partner for a healthy and happy lifestyle in the age of 100-year life", Toru became a Blackmores member with the desire to contribute to the positive health outcomes of people around the world.
Toru has over 30 years of experience in a number of leadership, marketing and corporate strategy roles at Kirin Holdings, Japan.
Beginning his career with Kirin Holdings in consumer insights and understanding, Toru has held roles in general management and new product development for some of Japan's leading beer brands. Toru was a founding member of Kirin Holdings Singapore, and regional headquarters in Southeast Asia and led business development across the region and leadership of the Thailand and Vietnam operations. After seven years in Southeast Asia, Toru returned to Japan as General Manager of Corporate Strategy for Kirin.
Following the establishment of Kirin's new health science business, Toru was appointed as its Executive Officer, and one of the first projects was the acquisition of Blackmores Group. Toru was impressed with Blackmores' leadership position in natural health in Australia and across Asia and thought that Blackmores would be the ideal partner to work with in the future. His appointment to Deputy CEO and Chief Strategy Officer at Blackmores Group is a role that Toru will relish.
Toru has an Economics major from the Yokohama National University and completed a bachelor's degree. Toru also completed a Master of Business Administration at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.