New board members join Woolworths

Woolworths has appointed three new board members to the company.

Christine Cross, David Mackay and Michael Ullmer have all been welcomed to the company as non-executive directors.

Cross, who is now a retired Tesco executive, runs her own retail advisory consultancy is also a non-executive director of Next plc (UK multi-channel clothing and general merchandise retailer), Sonae Group (largest grocery retailer in Portugal) and Plantasgen (a private equity owned garden centre group in Scandinavia).

Meanwhile, Mackay is a retired president, CEO and director of the Kellogg Company. He was also managing director of Sara Lee Bakery in Australia.

Similarly, Ullmer brings a wealth of experience from the accounting and banking sectors. He retired as deputy group chief executive at National Australia Bank (NAB) in August 2011 where he was also a director of NAB, Bank of New Zealand and chairman of the subsidiaries Great Western Bank (US) and JBWere.

“On behalf of the Woolworths board, I am delighted to welcome Christine, David and Michael to the company. They bring a tremendous array of skills, knowledge and experience to the table and we look forward to the contribution,” Chairman James Strong said.