Anne Cashman, the managing director of Avery Products in ANZ, is replacing Peter Russell as independent non-executive chair at Snap Franchising Ltd.

Cashman has served on the Snap Franchising board for seven years and will remain in her role as managing director of Avery Products ANZ, after stepping into the role of chair following the retirement of Peter Russell after nine years as a director of the company.

Snap Franchising CEO Richard Thame welcomed Cashman to the role.

“We are delighted with Anne’s appointment as Chair of Snap Franchising. Anne has a proven record of driving change in manufacturing and service-based businesses and brings with her a great understanding of franchising,” Thame said.

“Peter has made an incredible contribution to Snap, overseeing a refocussing of the company’s strategic agenda and working with management to ensure the network is well positioned to grow as the economy returns to work. Everyone at Snap wishes Peter well in his retirement.”

Cashman has held senior executive positions within the office products industry in both the USA and Australia for listed and private companies and she also has a unique knowledge of Snap as a business.

“The COVID reopening is a light at the end of the tunnel after what has been a tough 19-months as the nation has battled COVID and I am looking forward to working with the board and the Snap management team to provide the support that our franchisees need to get back to business,” Cashman said.

In June this year, Snap Franchising launched a new e-commerce platform, Snap Print-Online, which is designed to accelerate a partnership it earlier signed with Aussie design unicorn, Canva.

The new platform makes it possible to link a Snap customer to the customer’s local Snap centre.

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