New CIO for Endeavour

endeavourX’s Claire Smith has been appointed Chief Information Officer at Endeavour Group.

She has been acting in the role since November overseeing the Technology team while still leading endeavourX.

CEO and Managing Director Steve Donohue said: “Claire has been Interim CIO since November, during which time she has done a fantastic job of overseeing the Technology team and maintaining her leadership of endeavourX while continuing to enable the delivery of Endeavour Group’s technology transformation plans.

“In particular, Claire has been able to continue to drive our transformation and we are delighted she will
now permanently lead Endeavour Group’s technology agenda.”

Smith joined the business in 2012 as the Head of Online for Dan Murphy’s and held several important strategic transformation, technology and customer roles before being appointed Director of endeavourX in 2019.

Smith said: “Endeavour Group has a very bright future due to the exceptional talent we have working on our transformation agenda.  I look forward to continuing to work with these fantastic teams across our business to ensure our technology is meeting the needs of our customers and team now and into the future.” 

Steve Cuda will take on the role of Interim Director, endeavourX, while a further recruitment process is conducted.