Three decades of leadership inside global consumer healthcare, now channelled into focused, independent advisory.

Meet the Founder

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Ian Alexander founded Ripple Consulting to bring enterprise-grade operational leadership to organisations navigating complex change — without the overhead of a large advisory firm.

Over three decades in global consumer healthcare, Ian has worked across category management, brand strategy, business development, and ultimately regional operational leadership. Most recently, as Head of Operational Excellence, APAC at Haleon, he was responsible for driving leadership-team effectiveness, cross-market execution, and regional sustainability strategy across one of the world's largest consumer health businesses.

His track record includes leading the operational separation of a multi-billion-dollar consumer healthcare business from its parent company — managing entanglements, planning, and execution across every function and market in the Asia-Pacific region. Before that, he directed the regional integration of a major joint venture across eleven Asia-Pacific markets, delivering local "Day 1" cutovers, ERP implementation, and the transition of more than 2,000 people, all executed through the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic and shifting border closures. That work earned him a President's Award for Execution.

Ian also built and led regional ESG strategy, translating global sustainability commitments — across carbon, packaging, renewable energy, and ingredient sourcing — into measurable, market-level action.

He holds an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).

The name Ripple reflects how Ian works: the right move, made decisively and early, creates impact that extends well beyond the immediate decision. That's the thinking he brings to every engagement.

Credentials

  • Head of Operational Excellence, APAC - Haleon

  • Head of Separation, APAC - GSK Consumer Healthcare

  • Region Integration Lead, APAC - GSK / Pfizer Consumer Healthcare JV

  • Executive MBA - AGSM, UNSW Business School

Our
Values

Transparency

No spin, no jargon-heavy decks. Ian tells clients what's actually working, what isn't, and what it will take - the same directness that earned a President's Award for leading a business separation across every function and market in APAC.

Innovation

Real innovation isn't a new framework - it's finding the move everyone else missed. It's the thinking behind turning global ESG commitments into carbon, packaging, and sourcing targets that actually shift at market level.

Compassion

Transformation succeeds or fails on the people living through it. Leading 2,000+ people through a regional integration - mid-pandemic - showed Ian that change only lands when it's led with genuine care for the teams delivering it.

Respect

For the client's time, their teams, and their expertise. Ian works alongside leadership, not around it - enterprise-grade rigour without the overhead, ego, or bloat of a large advisory firm.

"The hardest part of transformation isn't the strategy - it's making it land, market by market, team by team."

Ian Alexander