Jayne Hrdlicka
Jayne Hrdlicka is an American business executive based in Australia.[1]
Life
Hrdlicka grew up in Kansas near by Wichita, in the United States; her father had defected from Czechoslovakia and in 1948 migrated to the U.S..[2][3] She graduated from Colorado College, Colorado USA, with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and economics. She also holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire USA.[4][1]
Between 1987–1991 and 1997–2010 Hrdlicka held senior positions at Bain & Company, initially in the United States, and in Australia from 1994.[2] She also held a senior position at Arthur Young and Company (now Ernst & Young).[5] From 2010 to 2012 Hrdlicka was a senior executive at Qantas. In July 2012 Hrdlicka was appointed group chief executive officer at Jetstar, a position she held until July 2018 when she was appointed managing director, chief executive officer and director of The a2 Milk Company, an Auckland-based dairy company.[4][6]. She stepped down from A2 Milk in December 2019.[7][8]
She was a director of Tennis Australia between January 2016 and October 2017, and has been appointed Tennis Australia Board President and Chair in October 2017.[9][10] She also served as a director at Woolworths from 2010 to 2016.[4] She is a member of Tuck School of Business' Asian Advisory Board.[11]
References
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- O'Sullivan, Matt (2015). Mayday: The Inside Story of the Fall of Qantas. Penguin UK.
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- "Jayne Hrdlicka to take over as A2 managing director | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
- "Jayne Hrdlicka, former Jetstar chief, quits Qantas to become CEO of A2 Milk". Financial Review. 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
- "MD & CEO".
- "A2 Milk's ousting of high-flying female CEO Jayne Hrdlicka leaves a lot unanswered".
- https://www.tennis.com.au/news/2017/10/23/jetstar-ceo-to-lead-new-era-for-tennis-australia-board
- https://www.afr.com/news/australian-open-tennis-milk-and-aviation-part-of-the-game-for-jayne-hrdlicka-20180124-h0nct4
- Dartmouth, Tuck School of Business at. "Jayne Hrdlicka". www.tuck.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-11.