Anne has worked in the Apparel, Underwear and Footwear businesses in Operations and Supply Chain for over 25 years. She has managed teams in Planning, Product Development, Customer Service, Sourcing and Logistics. In 1988 she graduated from Melbourne University with a diploma in Engineering. After working for Kayser Lingerie and Lovable in the underwear stream, she went on to work for adidas. Her role started as costing and engineering garments to achieve profitable margins and was an intrigue part of the team that saw adidas rise back in leading the sports branded market against its major competitors

2000 Anne join Pacific Dunlop which later became Pacific Brands. She worked over several of their businesses in operational and supply chain roles, her roles consisted executing business strategy by improving efficiency and return profit to meet KPI’s. She has worked and travelled overseas securing capacity for manufacturing and reducing lead-times by 10% and improving gross margins. Her extensive knowledge is in planning, product development, supplier/customer relationships and has a sound business acumen.

2011 Anne graduated with a business management Diploma, she joined the business senior leadership team and was responsible for coaching and mentoring employee’s, in 2015 Anne completed a certificate IV in Human Recourses.

Her knowledge over the Supply Chain and Business Operations is a solid foundation into teaching the Merchandising Planning & Fashion Business short courses.