Toni Brendish

Toni Brendish

B.Com, G.Dip, FAICD, 

Toni is currently a Non-Executive Director of Cobram Estate Olives Limited (ASX:CBO) a leading Australian food and agri-business and Clover Corporation (ASX:CLV) ; which supplies fish and algal oil ingredients around the world. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Prolife Foods (NZ) Limited and a member of Aurora Dairies Advisory Committee part of Warakirri Asset Management. 

In Executive life Toni was CEO with extensive manufacturing and operational experience across Australia, Asia and New Zealand. She built factories and managed supply chains in multiple geographies and led large consumer-based businesses with revenues of $2 billion and employing 1,000’s.  

Toni had 11 years at French multinational Danone, as Managing Director in Australia and New Zealand, and then in Malaysia and Indonesia where she led innovation and digital strategies that were adopted by Danone in other countries. . 

Most recently she ran an $970 million New Zealand consumer business, which is also a key supplier to Chinese infant formula companies. The company has three manufacturing sites and exports to over 40 countries. Under Toni’s leadership, the valued-added product business more than doubled and the business was successfully sold to the Chinese Group Yili.