Name Anthea Muir
Company Luxottica
Position President,
Optical Retail, Australia
& New Zealand
HQ Sy d n e y, A u s t r a l i a
Employees 79,000 (globally)EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW
The gift
of sight
Playing a key role in the growth of one of the world’s
leading eyewear and optometry companies, Anthea
Muir’s executive vision is 20/20.IMAGES SCOTT EHLERM
aking the leap from optometry to retail, IT, supply chain and all
the way up to President of Optical Retail Australia & New
Zealand, Luxottica’s local chief Anthea Muir has an eye for
growth opportunities — and more than thirty pairs of glasses
to show for it.In fact, during her seventeen years with the company, Anthea has held eleven
different positions, from New Zealand through to Australia, and even a period
in China, playing a key role in the company’s expansion there. First entering the
eyewear market as a qualified optometrist in New Zealand, Anthea spent the
first few years of her career in an examination room testing patients’ eyesight.“My career change really started in terms of management when I took on the
opportunity to actually manage a store for OPSM in New Zealand. It was a
small beginning, but managing people for the first time was a big learning
experience,” she says. Enjoying her first taste of applying her optometry
knowledge to the retail sector, she decided to make the move to Sydney
in 1997 to take up a position as an eye-care manager, looking after professional
services and optometry licensees with OPSM.