Senior Management
Doug Jones
BComm, Accounting, Tax, Auditing, Information Systems, CA(SA)CEO, Metcash Group
Doug Jones is an experienced executive with extensive wholesale, retail and eCommerce experience. He spent 14 years with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Massmart group which is majority-owned by Walmart Inc. It has leading market positions in wholesale food, liquor, home improvement and general merchandise.
Before joining Metcash Doug was CEO and Senior Vice President of Massmart Wholesale, which includes ‘big box’ format food, liquor, and general merchandise stores serving retail, commercial and wholesale customers; cash and carry stores; buying groups that service wholesale and independent retail customers; and a number of eCommerce platforms.
Doug is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has previously held senior finance positions in Makro SA, Amalgamated Beverages Industries Limited and The South African Breweries, all in Johannesburg, CocaCola Enterprises in Canada, and Deloitte in both Canada and South Africa.
Alistair Bell
B.Ec (Sydney), CA, MAICDCFO, Metcash Group
Alistair joined Metcash in 2020 as the Group CFO.
Alistair has extensive capital-markets experience and executive leadership in managing international organisations with portfolio of businessses.
Alistair has held various CFO, COO and strategy positions in a range of industries with ASX listed, private equity and multi-national corporations. Most recently, he was the Group CFO of GrainCorp for almost 10 years. Alistair has broad experience as a Non- Executive Director, including as Chairman of Audit & Risk Committees.
Simon Burton
B.A (Hons), EconomicsChief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Metcash Group
Simon is a globally experienced executive with over 25 years’ experience focused on FMCG and retail businesses, strategy and transformation. He worked most recently with Lion Nathan as Group Strategy and Corporate Development Director. Prior to that worked across strategy and business transformation at Partners in Performance and Momentum Partners (now part of KPMG)
Prior to emigrating to Australia in 2010, Simon worked in London for Bupa as Customer Proposition and Strategy Director building on his experience as a Director in investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort’s European food, consumer and retail group and as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co serving consumer and retail clients.
Grant Ramage
CEO, Metcash Food (Incoming May 2023)Grant was promoted to CEO of Metcash Food in 2023 after four years as Executive General Manager, Merchandise, and a further four years as State General Manager, Supermarkets in WA. He has been a key contributor to the strong performance of both the Food pillar and the IGA network in recent years, working closely with leading retailers and suppliers to improve IGA’s competitive position and deliver sustainable growth.
Prior to joining Metcash in 2015, Grant held several senior roles at Coles Liquor across merchandise, marketing, operational leadership, business development, critical projects, and exclusive brands. His earlier career included 10 years with Oddbins, the UK’s then pre-eminent Wine Merchant, initially in retail stores and then in buying.
Chris Baddock
GradCertBus,CEO, Australian Liquor Marketers
Chris joined Metcash in July 2019 as CEO of Australia Liquor Marketers (ALM).
Chris has over 30 years of experience in FMCG including Lion and Woolworths. Most recently Chris was Director of Pinnacle Drinks, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Woolworths’ Endeavour Drinks Group.
Annette Welsh
CEO, Independent Hardware GroupAnnette joined Metcash in 2010 and held the roles of GM of Operations and GM Merchandise prior to being appointed CEO of Independent Hardware Group in 2020.
Annette has global experience across retail and wholesale and prior to joining Metcash worked for Marks & Spencer and IBM.
Penny Coates
BA Hons, Chartered Fellow CIPD, GAICDChief People & Culture Officer
Penny joined Metcash in 2015 as Chief People & Culture Officer. Penny has extensive international HR and line management experience gained in the retail, financial services and professional services industries.
Prior to joining Metcash Penny worked for TAL as their Chief Customer Service & Operations Officer.
Julie Hutton
B Asian Studies (Viet), LLB, LLN, GAICDCompany Secretary
Julie was appointed as Company Secretary on 6 June 2016. She joined Metcash from law firm Baker & McKenzie, where she was a partner who specialised in mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate restructures. Julie is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was formerly a Non-executive Director of AVCAL, a national association which represents the private equity and venture capital industries in Australia.
Marij Kouwenhoven
M.Sc. EngineeringChief Technology Officer
Prior to joining Metcash in October 2022, Marij was the SVP and Global CIO of The Bountiful Company (now part of Nestle Health Science). Previously, she worked at Dairy Farmers of America, where she led a comprehensive program of simplification and optimisation to deliver expanded services and value to the 'fiercely independent' member network.
Marij's professional career started in the early days of SAP in Germany, and she has held several IT leadership roles over the years covering IT strategy, applications modernisation, IT business operations improvement, shared service, agile transformation, cloud migration, data management, security/compliance, digital commerce, and analytics.
Senior Management
Doug Jones
BComm, Accounting, Tax, Auditing, Information Systems, CA(SA)CEO, Metcash Group
Doug Jones is an experienced executive with extensive wholesale, retail and eCommerce experience. He spent 14 years with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Massmart group which is majority-owned by Walmart Inc. It has leading market positions in wholesale food, liquor, home improvement and general merchandise.
Before joining Metcash Doug was CEO and Senior Vice President of Massmart Wholesale, which includes ‘big box’ format food, liquor, and general merchandise stores serving retail, commercial and wholesale customers; cash and carry stores; buying groups that service wholesale and independent retail customers; and a number of eCommerce platforms.
Doug is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has previously held senior finance positions in Makro SA, Amalgamated Beverages Industries Limited and The South African Breweries, all in Johannesburg, CocaCola Enterprises in Canada, and Deloitte in both Canada and South Africa.
Alistair Bell
B.Ec (Sydney), CA, MAICDCFO, Metcash Group
Alistair joined Metcash in 2020 as the Group CFO.
Alistair has extensive capital-markets experience and executive leadership in managing international organisations with portfolio of businessses.
Alistair has held various CFO, COO and strategy positions in a range of industries with ASX listed, private equity and multi-national corporations. Most recently, he was the Group CFO of GrainCorp for almost 10 years. Alistair has broad experience as a Non- Executive Director, including as Chairman of Audit & Risk Committees.
Simon Burton
B.A (Hons), EconomicsChief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Metcash Group
Simon is a globally experienced executive with over 25 years’ experience focused on FMCG and retail businesses, strategy and transformation. He worked most recently with Lion Nathan as Group Strategy and Corporate Development Director. Prior to that worked across strategy and business transformation at Partners in Performance and Momentum Partners (now part of KPMG)
Prior to emigrating to Australia in 2010, Simon worked in London for Bupa as Customer Proposition and Strategy Director building on his experience as a Director in investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort’s European food, consumer and retail group and as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co serving consumer and retail clients.
Scott Marshall
B.BusinessCEO, Metcash Food (Outgoing 2023)
Scott began his career with Metcash in the ALM business 25 years ago and was appointed CEO of ALM in December 2013. In March 2018 Scott was appointed CEO, Supermarkets & Convenience.
His areas of experience cover warehousing operations and management, sales, retail operations, state general management and marketing management.
Grant Ramage
CEO, Metcash Food (Incoming May 2023)Grant was promoted to CEO of Metcash Food in 2023 after four years as Executive General Manager, Merchandise, and a further four years as State General Manager, Supermarkets in WA. He has been a key contributor to the strong performance of both the Food pillar and the IGA network in recent years, working closely with leading retailers and suppliers to improve IGA’s competitive position and deliver sustainable growth.
Prior to joining Metcash in 2015, Grant held several senior roles at Coles Liquor across merchandise, marketing, operational leadership, business development, critical projects, and exclusive brands. His earlier career included 10 years with Oddbins, the UK’s then pre-eminent Wine Merchant, initially in retail stores and then in buying.
Chris Baddock
GradCertBus,CEO, Australian Liquor Marketers
Chris joined Metcash in July 2019 as CEO of Australia Liquor Marketers (ALM).
Chris has over 30 years of experience in FMCG including Lion and Woolworths. Most recently Chris was Director of Pinnacle Drinks, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Woolworths’ Endeavour Drinks Group.
Annette Welsh
CEO, Independent Hardware GroupAnnette joined Metcash in 2010 and held the roles of GM of Operations and GM Merchandise prior to being appointed CEO of Independent Hardware Group in 2020.
Annette has global experience across retail and wholesale and prior to joining Metcash worked for Marks & Spencer and IBM.
Penny Coates
BA Hons, Chartered Fellow CIPD, GAICDChief People & Culture Officer
Penny joined Metcash in 2015 as Chief People & Culture Officer. Penny has extensive international HR and line management experience gained in the retail, financial services and professional services industries.
Prior to joining Metcash Penny worked for TAL as their Chief Customer Service & Operations Officer.
Julie Hutton
B Asian Studies (Viet), LLB, LLN, GAICDCompany Secretary
Julie was appointed as Company Secretary on 6 June 2016. She joined Metcash from law firm Baker & McKenzie, where she was a partner who specialised in mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate restructures. Julie is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was formerly a Non-executive Director of AVCAL, a national association which represents the private equity and venture capital industries in Australia.
Marij Kouwenhoven
M.Sc. EngineeringChief Technology Officer
Prior to joining Metcash in October 2022, Marij was the SVP and Global CIO of The Bountiful Company (now part of Nestle Health Science). Previously, she worked at Dairy Farmers of America, where she led a comprehensive program of simplification and optimisation to deliver expanded services and value to the 'fiercely independent' member network. Marij's professional career started in the early days of SAP in Germany, and she has held several IT leadership roles over the years covering IT strategy, applications modernisation, IT business operations improvement, shared service, agile transformation, cloud migration, data management, security/compliance, digital commerce, and analytics.