TasFoods Ltd. announced that Mr. Josh Fletcher, currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of TasFoods, has been appointed CEO. Ms Leanne Pritchard, currently Financial Controller of TasFoods, has been appointed CFO and Company Secretary, Effective March 29, 2024. Josh and Leanne will commence their respective roles on 29th March 2024.

Josh is a proud Tasmanian and an experienced corporate professional with over 10 years' experience working in agriculture, farming and manufacturing businesses in Tasmania and Victoria. Josh has held numerous commercial and finance roles prior to his current role as CFO and Company Secretary for TasFoods. Leanne is an experienced Chartered Accountant with Board-level exposure and leadership experience across various industries including Big 4 audit, banking, FMCG and IT.

Leanne's key strengths lie in strategy development, financial analysis and reporting, compliance and ERP implementation. Josh has broad commercial, finance and governance experience, gained over his career in the dairy industry from farmgate to manufacturing and commercial operation. Prior to TasFoods, he was the Finance Director at Maeil Australia (Maeil Dairies Co) and was responsible for all finance and governance related matters.

Prior to Maeil Australia, Josh was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of Organic Dairy Farmers of Australia Co-operative and its subsidiaries until 2019. He was also Head of Commercial Finance and Head of Finance at Murray Goulburn Co-operative. Josh was the original financial controller of Tasmanian Dairy Products Co Limited, owned by Murray Goulburn, Mitsubishi Corporation and the Tasmanian founding shareholder, who built an $80m milk powder facility in North-West Tasmania.

Josh is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ). In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting (University of Tasmania). He has previously been a member of the CA ANZ Regional and Rural Advisory Committee.