Leadership

Amy Lang, President

As president of global operations for CDS, Amy Lang leads business strategy, operations and delivery of demonstration services in Costco warehouses across twelve countries.  With a clear directive to engage members and influence purchasing through brand advocacy, product discovery and retail excitement, CDS makes member moments that matter.

Amy joined Advantage Solutions to lead CDS in July 2022 after 16 years demonstrating business leadership and impact in roles at her previous company, Staples.  At Staples, she led retail and sales operations, talent management, transformation strategy, brand and marketing. Prior to her time at Staples, Amy worked at Bain & Co., American Express and investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

Amy received her BA in Economics from Williams College and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She is part owner of a local restaurant & an expanding locally-sourced fried chicken market, and loves to sample the newest dishes.

Favorite Kirkland product: Kirkland Signature Praline Pecans

Brendon Hicks, Country Manager, CDS Australia & New Zealand

Brendon has spent the last 15 years working for large multinationals (Unilever / Heinz / Johnson & Johnson) from across the CPG Industry in New Zealand and Australia. Throughout that time Brendon has successfully led and developed high performing sales and field teams at a national level, and has a track-record of consistently guiding these teams to generate market leading results.

Brendon is a dynamic, collaborative and transformative people leader, with a huge passion for developing strong ‘people-centered’ working cultures. He has a strong ability to coach and mentor, and fundamentally believes that empowerment, trust and belonging are all key to creating a strong sense of team.

One of Brendon’s most recent career highlights was leading the national field sales team at Johnson & Johnson to be recognized by Australia’s largest grocery retailer as ‘Best In Class’, and the field team that set the standard for all other suppliers to follow.

Favorite Kirkland Product: Extra-large family size pizza for $15AUD!

Hina Kapoor, Manager, Human Resources

Hina Kapoor is a Human Resources professional with over a decade of successful experience in areas such as Strategic Human Resource Planning, Compensation & Payroll, Recruitment, WHS and Performance Management. She has been working with CDS Australia since early 2018, managing end to end employee life cycle starting from Recruitment, Onboarding, Payroll, Employee Relations, Performance Management, Workers’ Compensation, Safety and Development.

Prior to joining CDS Australia, she managed the Human Resource functions in various sized companies from industries like Banking, Education and IT Services.

Favorite Kirkland product: Kirkland Signature Pistachios & Almonds