Our Board

  • James Kostarakis – Chairman

    MAICD

    James Kostarakis is a Director of Countrywide Australasia Limited and member of the Finance Risk and Audit Committee. Mr Kostarakis is the Managing Director of Fastrac Foodservice which was established in 1991; a second-generation family owned and operated Foodservice Distributor in Victoria. James has worked in many roles including sales, marketing, purchasing, supplier negotiations, corporate governance, compliance, finance, as well as logistics and warehousing. James has over 20 years’ experience in the Foodservice sector.

  • Trevor Gottlieb - Deputy Chair

    Trevor is Managing Director of Sydney Food & Packaging Wholesalers Pty Ltd. It is a family run foodservice distributor established in 2004. We are associated with NAFDA, one of the largest groups of independent foodservice operators in Australasia. Our HACCP accreditation and fully audited set of procedures provide our customers with peace of mind when ordering through SFPW.

  • Cath Fifoot - Director

    Cath Fifoot has over 20 years FMCG experience, spanning both Sales & Category. She has broad channel exposure having worked in several diverse categories, with the last 2.5 years being in Foodservice. Cath is currently the Commercial Director Oceania for Lamb Weston Australia, leading both Sales & Marketing for the business. She will bring multi-channel & diverse industry thinking, in conjunction with a strong supplier lens. Cath is excited to be a part of IFDA and its critical agenda.

  • Brad Lee - Director

    Brad Lee is the Head of Food Service at Bega. He was formerly the CEO of NAFDA Foodservice, an Australian public company comprising of 52 family owned and operated independent food distribution shareholders with sales revenue in excess of $1.4b.

  • Brett Barclay - Director

    Brett Barclay is Chairman for The Distributors. He was appointed to the Board as Independent Chairman in March 2021. Brett has over 25 years experience in the Impulse channel and has 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.