Board of Directors

The Hon Jeffrey Kennett AC was an Officer in the Royal Australian Regiment, serving at home and overseas. He was a Member of the Victorian Parliament for 23 years and was Premier of the State of Victoria from 1992 to 1999. Mr Kennett is currently Chairman of Australian Seniors Finance Limited, Open Window Pty Ltd and a Director of PFD Food Services Pty Ltd, a Director of Jumbuck Entertainment Limited, QLimited and Barbu D’Anvers Proprietary Limited. He is also Chairman of Beyondblue, the national depression initiative, Chairman of the Enterprize Ship Trust and President of the Hawthorn Football Club.

John Murphy has built his career through a series of progressions within Foster’s Group first in Finance and Strategy, then Field Marketing, Operations and more recently Sales and Marketing.

His career with Foster’s Group began in Finance and Administration positions based in Brisbane, servicing Queensland and the Northern Territory. He also spent time in middle management positions in Field Marketing, Marketing Services and Sales during this period. He was then transferred to Melbourne as National Manager for Production and Purchasing.

After spending time in Production and Purchasing he then spent two years developing the footprint for the establishment of CUB’s national customer team servicing the national retail chains and national on-premise customers.

In recent times John was responsible for the evolution of Marketing and Sales teams from a beer only focus to a multi beverage capability. With a restructure of the Foster’s Group in 2005, including the merger of CUB and BBWE and also the acquisition of Southcorp Wines, John was appointed to lead the new business as Managing Director of Foster’s Australia.

Then after two years as Managing Director he left Foster’s Australia to pursue his own ventures and offer consulting services in Sales and Marketing. He also took up a number of Board positions including PFD.