Peter Hearl

Biography

  BComm FAICD Independent non-executive Director since 10 May 2016. Chair of the Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability Committee and member of the People and Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee. During an 18 year career in the oil industry with Esso Australia Ltd, a subsidiary of oil giant Exxon, he held a variety of senior marketing, operations, logistics and strategic planning positions. Mr Hearl joined PepsiCo as KFC Australia’s Director of Operations in 1991 and held several Regional Vice President (Managing Director) roles before assuming the role of YUM Brands’ global Chief Operating & Development Officer in 2006, based in Dallas, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky. Non-executive Director of Australia’s largest telecommunications company, Telstra Ltd since August 2014, and serves on that company’s Remuneration Committee.  Former non-executive Director of the Australian listed, global wine company, Treasury Wine Estates from 2012 to 2017, where he served on the Audit and Risk Committee. Former non-executive Director on the board of Goodman Fielder Ltd from 2010 until that company was sold to overseas interests in 2015.

Research Interest

  Oil & natural gas, energy management, power generation