John Cheston

John spent 17 years with Marks and Spencer starting on their retail cadetship and during this time fulfilled roles in retail operations and buying and merchandising. In 2000 John relocated to Hong Kong to take up a position as Buying and Sourcing Director for the company and then in 2003 became Asia Pacific Managing Director, responsible for all of the Marks and Spencer wholly owned stores in the territory.

In January 2005, John joined Robinsons PLC as their group CEO, a company which was then listed on the Singapore Exchange. In addition to the two Robinsons department stores in Singapore, the company also owned the John Little department store chain as well as the Marks and Spencer franchise for Singapore and Malaysia markets.

In 2010, John moved to Australia to take up the role as CEO of Country Road before moving on to Webster Holdings, a Sydney based company whose brands are Jigsaw, David Lawrence and Marcs. John then returned to Melbourne in October 2012 to join the Just Group as Group General Manager of Smiggle.