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.
Natasha (Tash) Reeve
General Manager, People and Culture
Tash is an accomplished Human Resources professional who has worked in various industries and sectors in Australia and the United States, including at Hertz, 7-11 and Amazon. Tash specialises in organisational development, talent management and executive coaching. Tash oversees the Safety, Talent Acquisition, Business Partnering, Employee Relations and Payroll functions at The Reject Shop.
Tash holds a Bachelor of Business Management specialising in Human Resources Management and Marketing.
Tash joined The Reject Shop in April 2023 as Head of Business Partnering and was appointed General Manager, People and Culture in May 2024.
David (Dave) Newett
General Manager, Technology
Dave has nearly 30 years of technology experience, with over 20 years’ experience in retail focused technology roles.
Prior to joining The Reject Shop, Dave held a number of senior technology roles at Kmart. During his time at Kmart, Dave helped define the technology strategy, lead major transformation initiatives from a technology and business perspective and was instrumental in enabling the enhanced use of data to drive business outcomes.
Dave joined The Reject Shop as Head of Technology in July 2021 and was appointed General Manager, Technology in October 2023.
Lauren Harris
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Lauren is an experienced legal and governance practitioner, having previously held roles at a top tier law firm (Ashurst) and a number of ASX 100 companies across a range of industries. Lauren has oversight of the Quality & Product Compliance, Legal and Company Secretarial functions at The Reject Shop.
Lauren holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce.
Lauren joined The Reject Shop as General Counsel in January 2024 and was appointed Company Secretary in February 2024.
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.
