Our Team
Our reputation has been built by our Australian-based directors and every project is led by one of them. It’s just one of many things that set us apart from our global competitors.
Rod Bennett, Chairman
Rod has had an extraordinary career advising and building some of Australia’s leading brands. He joined Ellis Foster McVeigh as Chairman during December 2009.
Susan Ellis, Founding Director (NSW)
Susan is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School. She has held academic positions at the Australian Graduate School of Management, the Graduate School of Business at the University of Sydney, and the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Susan consults to government and corporate clients in Australia, the US, Canada and the UK. In addition, she spent some years at Coca-Cola where she held profit-and-loss responsibility for a $330 million dollar product category. Susan’s qualifications include BA (Hons) (North Carolina), MA (North Carolina), PhD (Rice).
Grant Foster, Founding Director (Vic)
Grant is an Adjunct Faculty Member of The Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW). He has held senior marketing roles in Australian, US and European listed technology businesses and is one of Australia’s leading consultants in business and brand strategy, working with clients in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the United Kingdom. Grant has an MBA from Bond University and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University.
John McVeigh, Founding Director (QLD)
John is one of Australia’s leading agribusiness and export marketers and consults extensively to government. He holds continuing advisory positions and non-executive directorships with two Queensland based horticultural producers and exporters. John has a Bachelor of Business (Marketing & Economics) from DDIAE (now USQ), a Diploma of Export from the Australian Institute of Export and an MBA from Bond University.
Chris Grannell, Consulting Director
Chris has a BA in Philosophy from London and an MBA from Melbourne Business School. He has written extensively on marketing matters in Australia and internationally, and is highly-regarded as a clear and pragmatic thinker. As well as heading brand, marketing and business development projects in Australia, he has advised clients in the UK, Germany and Central Europe. To see what Chris is reading on the web, visit his Delicious bookmarks.