Richard Hinson

Richard is the Chairman of Independent Food Distributors of Australia. He has over 30 years executive level experience in all aspects of the retail and wholesale food and beverage supply chain. He is currently the CEO of Countrywide - Australia’s ‘Largest Independent Food Service Distributor’ network.

Brad Lee

Brad Lee is the Deputy Chairman of IFDA. He is currently the CEO of NAFDA Foodservice, an Australian public company comprising of 72 family owned and operated independent food distribution shareholders with sales revenue in excess of $1.4b.

George Tsapoutas

George Tsapoutas is the general manager of The Distributors, an Australian public company comprising of 34 independent food distribution centres with 24 shareholders and sales revenue in excess of $600M.

Brett Barclay

Brett Barclay is Chairman for The Distributors. Brett Barclay was appointed to the Board as Independent Chairman in March 2021. Brett Barclay is a founding Director of Convenience Measures Australia a business focused on providing research, insights and support to the Convenience Channel in Australia. Brett has over 25 years’ experience in the Impulse channel and prior to his role at CMA, worked for both PepsiCo and Cadbury Schweppes. Brett presents his channel insights regularly as an Industry speaker, writes the AACS State of Industry Report and has been a Non-Executive Director of the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) since 2008.

In 2019 Brett became the Regional Representative in Australia & New Zealand for NACS.

Jeff Godden

Jeff is the Chairman of NAFDA Limited. Mr Godden is the Director of NAFDA Limited and its subsidiaries Australian Foodservice Distribution Pty Limited, eFoodservice Pty Limited and NAFDA Investments Pty Ltd. Further, Jeff is the Director of MJ&J Group Holdings and its subsidiaries / related entities MJ&J Food Group Pty Ltd, GFG Global Pty Ltd and GFG Operations Pty Ltd.

Jeff has over 30 years of experience in foodservice industry and has been a member of NAFDA FS since 2010.