Ian Cornell has experience in the retail industry across a number of senior retail roles including 11 years at Westfield. During his time at Westfield, Mr Cornell was head of human resources for seven years and also responsible for retailing relationships in Australia and New Zealand. He also spent three years as head of management and marketing for Westfield shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand, and has experience in large scale retail operations and responding to changing consumer trends. Prior to joining Westfield, Mr Cornell was chair and chief executive of supermarket chain, Franklins. Prior to that, he spent 22 years at Woolworths, including as chief general manager supermarkets. Mr Cornell was director of Goodman Fielder, non-executive director of Baby Bunting Group and Inglis Bloodstock as well as PKD Foundation of Australia, a charitable foundation raising funds for medical research into kidney disease.
