Mr Ganesh Kashyap

Mr Ganesh Kashyap is an accomplished Chief Executive Officer in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry.

Over his 25-year career, he has led large organisations with revenues of up to a $1B, teams of over 500 people and manufacturing assets across the Asia pacific region. He has lived and worked extensively in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.

Mr Kashyap graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from Monash University and also holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Deakin University.

Mr Kashyap began his career in management consulting, initially with Deloitte and then with Bain & Company. As a consultant, he worked with clients on their most pressing issues relating to growth strategy, supply chain efficiency, and large-scale digital transformation.

He then went on to co-found a start-up IT advisory firm called Dowling Consulting. That start-up grew to over 35 staff across offices in Melbourne and Sydney over an 8-year period, before finally being acquired by an ASX listed company in 2010.

After the acquisition of his start-up, Mr Kashyap joined Mondelez International - the multinational snack food company with brands such as Cadbury’s, Toblerone and Oreo cookies. At Mondelez, he established a global eCommerce business, in partnership with Alibaba in China and Amazon in the US. That eCommerce business today turns over $1B in sales per year.

He was then appointed the President of Mondelez Japan, where he led the Japanese unit through a complex turnaround while navigating the uncertainties of COVID-19.

In 2021, after almost 10 years overseas, Mr Kashyap returned with his family to Australia. He is now the Chief Executive and General Manager of CopRice, an Animal Nutrition business which is a leading producer of pet food, equine feeds and dairy stockfeed. In this role, he leads a business that turns over $270M in sales and a team of over 300 people across eight manufacturing sites in Australia and New Zealand.