Simon Burton

Simon brings over 20 years’ experience gained in leading global corporate and advisory firms across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America including Procter & Gamble, the Coca Cola Company, Bupa and McKinsey & Co.

He has held a variety of senior roles including most recently as Chief Strategy Officer at Lion Nathan where he oversaw a complete transformation of the business to become a leading, globally-focused premium adult beverage business. Previous positions include serving as Bupa’s Customer Proposition and Strategy Director where he led a successful turnaround of the UK business’ performance. He was a Director at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort, advising CEOs and CFOs on a wide range of strategic and capital market issues.

In consulting at McKinsey & Co, based in London, he advised leading global organisations on C-suite issues across multiple sectors including financial services, oil and gas, retail, consumer, health and government. As a consultant with Partners in Performance, once of his proudest achievements was to lead the programme office driving the largest transformation in Australian government to date at the Department of Defence. He has served on a number of company boards including Bupa UK’s retail business.

Simon’s experience covers multiple disciplines including strategy, sales & marketing, transformation, digital, operational improvement and mergers & acquisitions providing a rich seam of learnings that he brings to bear in his teaching and consulting. He has a particular passion for all things consumer related, not least having spent the early part of his career in brand management with Procter & Gamble including leading numerous global new-product innovations.