Bronwyn Powell

CEO Australian Marketing Institute

Bronwyn is the CEO of The Australian Marketing Institute (AMI), a CMO/senior marketer, board director and senior advisor, who is known for big brand reinvention. She has over 30 years’ experience transforming and positioning brands for growth, with a focus on global food brands across Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) to Retail/Quick Service Restaurants (QSR). At the heart of her success, has been her ability to develop take insights and turn that into innovative new products and services with commercial success. Driven by strategies and bold communications that connect with consumers and change businesses.

She has close to 10 years’ experience as Global Marketing Director and Chief Marketing Officer for YUM Brands - KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut – where she grew the brand globally from Canada to the Europe to Asia. Coupled with many years locally at McDonald’s Australia.

Her experience in strategy development and execution extends beyond transformation and growth to customer experience across all touchpoints including digital, especially within Retail/QSR. Her passions are brand purpose and innovation and she loves’ breathing life back into brands and categories. Some of these include time at Kellogg, Mars, Tip Top, Smith’s Snackfoods, to name a few FMCG brands.

Bronwyn is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a Certified Practising Marketer/Fellow of AMI and a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing- UK (FCIM). Her passionate is ensuring marketing executives continue to lead organisations for growth, with brands that connect with the hearts and mind of our consumers.