Faculty

Simon has a broad range of experience working in the Australian FMCG industry over the last 25 years. With a background in Sales and Marketing, he is now a commercial consultant and leadership mentor. Previously Simon was the Sales Director at General Mills ANZ and prior to that worked as a Senior Marketing Manager. In addition, he has a wide range of commercial and leadership experience across several other industry leaders, including Mondelez, Cadbury Schweppes, Kraft Foods and Unilever.

Rebecca joined RWM in 2020 after 8+ years in London with a career spanning Sales, Insights & Category across a variety of blue chip FMCG market leading brands. With 15yrs experience across a broad mix of Food, Household & Liquor categories, she is passionate about leveraging a deep understanding of consumer & shopper behaviour to unlock growth for categories & brands, enabling collaborative partnerships between Retailers & Suppliers for mutual benefit.

James has 20 years’ experience working across commercial buying and category roles with Woolworths in Australia and Sainsburys and Tesco in the United Kingdom.  James has worked across numerous categories including Packaged Groceries (Head of Trade Woolworths), Confectionary (Category Manager), Frozen Foods (Senior Buying Manager Tesco), and Produce (Sainsbury’s).  With a focus on growth, James utilizes his personable style to unlock opportunities.

Nicole is an expert in developing and executing Category and Point of Purchase Strategy.  Drawing on more than 20 years of category and sales FMCG experience, she helps businesses and their leaders to cut through complexity, drive action and build capability along the way.  Nicole has experience across grocery, eCommerce, pharmacy, foodservice and specialty retail channels in Australia, and has also spent time in the emerging markets of the Middle East.