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Nessa O’Sullivan CFO & Executive Director Brambles

   
Nessa O’Sullivan CFO & Executive Director Brambles

If you want to grow you career, you have to be prepared to take on the tough challenges…

Anyone aiming to become a chief financial officer needs a broad career within the finance function and a strong commercial focus.

For Nessa O’Sullivan, CFO and executive director at Brambles, that experience came from an early career move to Yum! Brands Inc, which owns famous brands Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell. She started as the finance manager for Pizza Hut and by the time she left nearly 10 years later, she was VP and CFO of Yum!
for the South Pacific and had led strategy and been on the regional brand Board as well as having gained deep operational experience.

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