Lesley Dennison – CEO

Lesley has just started to really get involved with Evansdale Cheese over the last year, as she’s recently retired after being a nurse for 57 years. As Pablo and Matthew’s mother, she’s enjoying being able to work with her children, which a lot of parents don’t get the opportunity to.
Lesley has enjoyed watching the company grow. She admires that it has grown from a concept into a fully fledge business, and what Col has achieved in running the business in the past. A highlight for her has been watching her 92-year-old father come and help build the factory at Hawkesbury, as it goes to show that people can learn to do new things at any age, and can keep going. She finds that very inspiring. She thinks a credit to Evansdale Cheese being so successful and surviving for so many years is that the family is very tight and supportive.
Outside of work, Lesley is a member of the Rotary club, she visits elderly, and helps out at Foodbank. She is also involved in a large-scale project, collecting medical supplies to go to Samoa and the Pacific Island Research and Student Support Unit there. They’re sending hospital beds, linen, supplies, instruments and equipment all donated as she visited last year in October and realised how deficient they were in medical equipment.

Lesley’s Evansdale Cheese recommendation: Tania with garlic cracker and a nice relish or hummus – yum!