MANAGEMENT TEAM

Clinton Cahn

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer

Clinton has experience across investment banking at UBS, private equity at TPG Capital and corporate strategy at Crown Resorts.

Clinton Cahn was appointed Chief Financial Officer on 1 May 2020 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 24 August 2023.

 As CFO, Clinton has overseen The Reject Shop’s Accounting, Commercial Finance, Supply Chain and Technology teams, and has been responsible for investor relations.

Clinton held the role of Acting CEO from April 2022 to July 2022 and again from February 2023 to August 2023.

Clinton joined The Reject Shop in March 2020.

Amy Eshuys

Chief Operating Officer

Amy is an experienced retail professional, with extensive international merchandise experience and deep knowledge of discount variety retail, having worked in both Australia and the United States.

Prior to joining The Reject Shop, Amy held the combined role of Vice President and General Merchandise Manager for Buying, Merchandising & Sourcing at CTS (formerly known as Christmas Tree Shops) based in New Jersey. CTS is a specialty retailer with 80 stores that combines low price every day and seasonal merchandise. In her time with CTS, Amy was responsible for developing and executing a compelling merchandise offer to meet the needs and wants of customers in a very competitive and challenging marketplace.

Amy was appointed Chief Operating Officer of The Reject Shop on 28 April 2022.

Andrew Stein

Chief Customer Officer

Andrew has more than 25 years of experience in discount variety retail in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

In the US, Andrew was Chief Marketing Officer at Kmart where he led the brand repositioning, the development of the loyalty program, and creating Cannes Lion award-winning advertising. At Big Lots, Andrew was the Chief Customer Officer and led the brand reinvention, the launch and building of e-commerce, the redevelopment of the loyalty program and several years of comparable store sales growth.

Andrew then moved to the Warehouse Group in New Zealand to lead Customer Strategy and Demand Generation in the new agile structure for The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery and Noel Leeming brands.

Andrew joined the Reject Shop in March 2022.

Paul Calvert

General Manager, Operations

Paul has more than 25 years of retail experience in the United Kingdom and Australia. Paul started his retail journey as a team member with his local Asda store where he filled the shelves whilst studying before working his way through the ranks to become a store manager. Paul went on to hold a variety of leadership positions in Sainsburys in both their supermarket and convenience teams.

After moving to Australia in November 2015, Paul initially worked for Woolworths in Western Australia before moving to Coles where he held several roles both in operations and store support.

Paul joined The Reject Shop in May 2020.

Michael Freier

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Michael is an experienced legal practitioner with private practice (King & Wood Mallesons in Melbourne and McCullough Robertson in Brisbane) and in-house experience (Repco in Melbourne). In private practice, Michael worked on a wide range of property transactions around the country.

Since moving in-house, Michael has demonstrated experience managing property transactions, risk, corporate governance and product safety issues.

Michael has held the role of General Counsel of The Reject Shop since August 2016 and he was appointed Company Secretary on 1 September 2019.

Kate Lewis

General Manager, Human Resources

Kate has more than 25 years of experience working across large supermarket retailers where she has held both operational and human resource positions.

Kate has had extensive experience in driving and executing human resource strategy across these large complex businesses. Kate’s experience includes developing capability, sourcing great talent, transformation, fostering high performing teams, driving process and organisational improvement as well as achieving results in fast paced environments.

Kate joined The Reject Shop in February 2020.

Paul Rose

General Manager, Property

Paul is an experienced senior level professional with over 20 years’ experience in retail property, working with major retailers and major landlords throughout Australia.

Paul held senior roles for 10 years with leading ASX listed property trusts and commercial agencies in centre management, leasing and development. Paul then held senior property roles with Wesfarmers-owned Kmart Australia from 2009 and incorporated Target Australia from 2016. During this time, Paul was part of the property leadership team that delivered major store network growth to assist with re-positioning Kmart Australia.

Paul joined The Reject Shop in February 2020.

John Bacon

General Manager, Supply Chain

John Bacon has over 25 years of retail experience having worked at Coles, Coles Liquor, Lovisa and, as a supply chain consultant with a variety of other retailers. As a consultant, John has worked on a variety of supply chain transformation projects with each of Woolworths, Bras N Things and Pillow Talk while also assisting Forever New and Cotton On.

Since 2017, John has developed his skillset to include managing supply chains in domestic and international contexts where he provides proactive leadership to build supply chain capacity, capability and resilience.

John is keen to contribute to the learning and development of the next generation of retailers through education and mentoring. John is a sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne in e-commerce and supply chain.

John joined The Reject Shop in December 2022.