Drinks Association Board

Andrew Clarke

Managing Director ANZ

Andrew is a highly driven Senior Executive, with over 30 years in the FMCG industry, and a wealth of experience operating successfully at President and General Management levels in global brand-leading companies. With significant exposure in multiple countries and categories, and with deep and broad experience here in Australia.

Cam Pearce

Marketing and Innovation Director

Cam Pearce has been on the Coopers Board since 2002. He started his career in Shell Australia in sales and marketing roles in Adelaide, Melbourne and Port Moresby PNG. He was also CEO at Meals on Wheels (SA) Inc. for ten years.

Clair Stevenson

Head of Endeavor Drinks

Clair is a highly driven Senior Leader with over 15years commercial experience. Clair brings a diverse background across FMCG, Retail and Product Development. Prior to Diageo, Clair was the General Manager for the own brand division in Woolworths Grocery where she shaped the strategic direction of the future of Private label. Her strengths are building relationships across divisions, enacting change and a passion for diversity of thought.

Jeff Howlett

General Manager - Australia & New Zealand

Jeff has over 10 years’ experience in the global wine and spirits industry leading sales, category, trade marketing and cross functional teams. His expertise includes implementing route to market strategies, brand and portfolio optimisation, brand acquisition and sales acceleration initiatives. Prior to joining AVL, Jeff spent eight years at Pernod Ricard in senior global business development and category marketing roles. He has worked across multiple international markets within the wine industry including ANZ, USA, China, Russia, UK, Vietnam and Thailand.

John Barakat

General Manager Retail & Wholesale Operations at ALM

John Barakat is the General Manager, Retail & Wholesale Operations at Australian Liquor Marketers. John has extensive experience across the FMCG industry having spent over 17 years working across various divisions of the Metcash Group including his most recent role as CFO for ALM. Over this time John has gained extensive experience working closely with Retailers and has a good understanding of the Liquor industry.

Judd Michel

General Manager

Judd is an experienced, highly driven, and entrepreneurial executive with 20 years’ experience in the Liquor trade. Judd’s experience in FMCG includes senior roles in sales, marketing and general management across South Africa, Australia, and the UK. Prior to joining Drinkworks as Managing Director, Judd developed his career with SAB Miller, Heineken and CCA.

Kristy Ryan

Commercial Director

Kristy entered the liquor industry in 2008, joining William Grant & Sons when the Australian subsidiary was formed in 2010. Since that time Kristy has held various positions across the domestic and international markets, working with a multitude of local and global customers.

Mitchell Taylor

Managing Director & Winemaker

Mitchell Taylor is third generation Managing Director and winemaker for Clare Valley family-winery, Taylors Wines. Mitchell worked in finance and stockbroking in both London and Sydney before joining Taylors Wines in 1988 and later becoming the Managing Director in 2000. His commitment to the Australian wine industry extends to involvement in key industry associations, including his role as a founding and current director of Australia’s First Families of Wine, Chairman of the National Wine Foundation, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Director & Vice President of Australia Grape & Wine, Chair of the Medium Winemakers Committee. (2006-2018) and part of the Strategic Committee that created ‘The Australian Grape & Wine Sector Vision 2050’. In October 2018 Mitchell joined the Wine Australia Board as a Director. He is also currently the Chair of the Marketing Committee for Wine Australia. Mitchell was named as a finalist in the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards. He has been a Director of The Drinks Association since 2006.

Nathan Rowe

Director

Nathan has been a Director at Paramount Liquor for seven years and is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA).

Paul Midolo

Executive Director Australian Sales

A 30-year veteran of the industry, Paul has been with Samuel Smith & Son for more than 20 years. Joining the Company in 1995, Paul moved into management in 1996, working in either Sales or State Manager roles in all states. He was appointed General Manager Sales for Samuel Smith & Son in 2012, before assuming his current role in 2014.

Peter Bingeman

General Manager Sales

Peter Bingeman is the GM of Sales for CUB Beer. Peter has had 25 years in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry across Blue Chip organisations. He started his career with Procter and Gamble working across sales, marketing and supply chain before joining Cadbury Schweppes as GM of strategy involved with M&A and becoming Sales Director of Cadbury. He was involved with the exciting integration of Cadbury and Kraft becoming Mondelez where he became Managing Director of South East Asia and a member of the Asia Regional Leadership team. Returning to Australia he became the inaugural CEO of Visit Victoria. Peter holds a Commerce and Arts degree majoring in Economics, Marketing and Philosophy from Melbourne University and is a GAICD graduate from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Scott Bowie

Marketing & Consumer Engagement Director

Scott Bowie is the Marketing & Consumer Engagement Director for Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) Wine & Spirits Division, Moët Hennessy. Scott manages both the Australian and New Zealand markets for Moët Hennessy’s luxury Champagne, Wine and Spirits portfolio, which includes leadership of the consumer marketing, innovation, digital marketing, ecommerce, strategy, and business intelligence teams. This position sits on the Oceania Moët Hennessy Executive Committee, and the Asia Pacific Marketing & Innovation Leadership Committee. Scott has almost 20 years’ experience working in senior leadership positions for top tier global companies including Diageo and Bacardi Martini holding
General Manager, Marketing Director, Strategy Director and Global Brand Director positions in key international markets, such as China, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. Currently acting on several local and global boards including Maison Veuve Clicquot, Maison Moët & Chandon which are based in Paris and the Drinks Association Australia, based in Sydney. Scott represents the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy business as a Mentor on the LVMH Leadership program, mentoring rising talent within the group. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Australia in Business Management with a Marketing major.

Shane Bulluss

General Manager, National Sales

Shane has extensive experience in the liquor industry, having worked at Diageo, Constellation Brands and Treasury Wine Estates

Simon Durrant

Managing Director

Simon Durrant joined Campari Australia in July 2018 from The Clorox Company where he was General Manager, ANZA. With more than 25 years of industry experience across Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Europe; Simon has held senior commercial roles at Diageo Australia, Accolade Wines, Nestlé Waters and Seagram. Simon has rich experience in aligning organisations to strategic growth agendas, creating incremental value from the customer base and in creating a sustainable competitive advantage. He is recognised for making a positive impact on culture and engagement, leadership teams and business results. Simon led the Embrace Difference Council from its inception until June 2021 contributing towards raising awareness of Diversity & Inclusion within our Industry.

Tobias Hoogewerff

Sales Director - Licensed

Tobias has over 20 years of experience in the liquor industry and is the Sales Director of Licensed for Coca Cola Amatil. He has been with CCA for 6 years and started in this role in 2019. Prior to CCA. Tobias developed his career across sales and marketing roles in Australia, New Zealand and Europe with SABMiller and Grolsch.

Warwick Parks

Sales Director

Warwick is the Sales Director, having been appointed to the role in January 2021. During the seventeen years he has worked at Lion he has worked across many parts of the Lion Sales and Strategy functions from the Endeavour Drinks Group to Independents and On Premise. He has worked in Sales Leadership roles in WA, SA, NSW, VIC & TAS and most recently was Lion’s Strategy and Services Director role, leading the embedding of key CX digital and technology platforms. Warwick has deep experience leading large and complex teams and is passionate about developing people and driving a collaborative and inclusive culture.

Sarah Nichols

Marketing Director

With over 20 years of experience of working within the alcohol beverage space across multiple markets and categories, Sarah Nichols is a leader with experience which spans from sales, marketing, general management and production. Sarah has held senior roles in marketing and sales for Bacardi, Brown-Forman, William Grant and Sons and McWilliams Wines. Sarah has
held board positions in Australia, led teams in Southeast Asia and has driven the diversity and inclusion mandate in all companies that she has held executive roles in. Sarah is now the Marketing Director for Bacardi Martini ANZ, the largest family-owned spirits company globally.

Annette Tseung

Head of Sales Australia

With over 15 years’ experience in the drinks industry, Annette joined the team at Taylors Wines in January 2020 as the Head of Sales. Annette’s experience spans a range of commercial roles at Accolade Wines & Diageo Australia in customer management, leading large teams, operations, planning & strategy.

Ben Slocombe

Director of Beer & Cider

Ben Slocombe is the Beer and Cider Business Director at Coca-Cola Amatil, appointed in March 2020. Ben is an accomplished FMCG leader who has obtained significant marketing, sales and commercial experience over his career. He spent 15 years in the beer category at Lion, with his most recent role there being Lion Marketing Director. Following that, Ben was Marketing Director ANZ at Blackmores. His extensive liquor category knowledge combined with his leadership, brand building and commercial acumen enables Ben to lead teams to achieve their growth aspirations.

Colin Rochester

Managing Director ANZ

David Stevenson

National Business Manager

David is a Sales and Marketing professional with extensive liquor industry experience. David has worked at Swift & Moore, Tucker Seabrook, Fine wine Partners and Foley Family Wines NZ before moving into his current role at Brown Family Wine Group as National Business Manager – Endeavour Drinks Group.

John Grimes

Regional Manager Independent Retail Groups

Commencing his career in 1992 with  BRL Hardy, John has dedicated his working life to the wine industry holding various roles in both the domestic and global markets. John was appointed to the position of State Manager NSW / ACT Samuel Smith & Son in May 2015 and was appointed to the Drinks Board as an Alternate Director in 2017.

Kerry Appathurai

Customer Solutions Director

With a strong career in sales and category strategy, spanning 25 years, Kerry has worked in large global organisations such as Nestle, Parmalat (Lactalis) and Cadbury Schweppes. Kerry entered the Liquor Industry by joining Lion in 2018 as the Customer Director for the Endeavour Drinks Group, and is now the Customer Solutions Director on the Lion AU Leadership Team. Customer Solutions is a newly created function at Lion, which centres around making Lion Easy to do business with and Easy to grow with, with functions covering Lion Digital, Category Strategy, Shopper & Activations, O2C Strategy & Management, Key Business Project Management and the Capability & Change teams. A strong advocate for I&D, Kerry is passionate about developing and delivering new opportunities that improve business performance and seeing people excel and realise their true potential.

Mark Goulmy

National Manager Sales and Partner Brands

With the merger of Coopers and Premium Beverages into one business, Mark has now assumed the role of managing sales nationally and continues to oversee the partner brands on a commercial level. Previous to the merger, Mark was a founding member of Premium Beverages and General Manager – Sales and Marketing, overseeing successive years of growth. Other experience includes various senior sales and marketing roles with Fosters, Bonlac and Simplot.

Mark Rowe

Director

Natasha Cahill

People & Culture Director

Natasha joined AVL Wines & the liquor industry in 2018 after spending time across a diverse range of industries. Natasha is an enthusiastic and passionate HR Director with global experience spanning Australia, the UK and Asia. She is responsible for the companies People, Culture & Safety strategy which involves driving an achievement-based culture whilst ensuring employees’ safety and well-being are at the forefront. Natasha holds a Master’s level degree in HR Management.

Paul Morris

Logistics & Supply Director

Paul Morris joined Bacardi in 2001, and is currently the Logistics & Supply Director for Bacardi-Martini Australia. With 35 years of experience in Operations, he has worked in Liquor, Telecommunications and FMCG

Peter White

Commercial Director – Australia

Peter White joined Campari Australia as their Commercial Director in January 2019 and has 17 years’ experience within FMCG, liquor and the retail sector in both Australia & the UK. Prior to Campari Peter held the Sales Director role at Frucor Suntory and over his 12 years at Mars Wrigley held senior roles across Sales, Strategy, Category, Field Management and Marketing. Peter’s background allows him to leverage a clear commercial and practical approach to business while offering a unique and valuable perspective. Peter is an authentic leader and is recognised for building strong inclusive cultures, with a passion for creating an environment to unlock individuals potential to deliver outstanding personal and business outcomes.

Peter Yeomans

General Manager Sales NSW/ACT

Peter is a senior Sales and Marketing Executive with 20 years’ experience in both Customer and Sales Force management across the FMCG, grocery , beverages, alcohol and consumer electronics sectors. Peter has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and is current leading CUBs largest state field team as the Regional Sales Director in NSW/ACT driving strong results through developing a great team, setting a clear state strategy and delivering quality in outlet execution.