Nessa O'Sullivan joined Brambles in October 2016 and was appointed chief financial officer in November 2016 and an executive director in April 2017.
Prior to joining Brambles, she worked for ten years at Coca-Cola Amatil in a number of senior financial and operating roles including as group chief financial officer from 2010 to May 2015, group chief financial officer for operations and chief financial officer for Australia and New Zealand. Ms O'Sullivan began her career as an auditor at PwC in Dublin, New York and Sydney. She spent two years at Tyco Grinnell Asia Pacific before joining PepsiCo/Yum! Restaurants in 1995. Over a 10-year period at Yum! Restaurants International, she held a number of senior finance, IT and strategy roles including five years as chief financial officer for the South Pacific Region.
Ms O'Sullivan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.