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John Lees

John Lees led the Australian and New Zealand operations of 'Schwarzkopf' to become the most successful for the organisation worldwide, in terms of market share and profitability. After 10 years as marketing and sales director with Schwarzkopf, John Lees was appointed international marketing consultant for the German multi-national, supervising the introduction of his advanced marketing, service and sales concepts to the American, Canadian, British, South African and leading European markets.

In earlier days, John Lees spent 3 years with Reckitt & Colman in the UK as a sales rep and key account manager, and then moved to Australia (to family) and started again with Reckitts in Sydney, first in sales representation and then in state sales management in NSW (at age 25). He ed Schwarzkopf at age 28, as national sales manager of the salon division.