Scot Braithwaite joined the Wellard Group in 2004 and was appointed chief operating officer from 2015-2016 at the time of its listing on the ASX. Mr Braithwaite has had a long association with the cattle industry and South East Asia. He gained an economics degree from the University of Queensland. After university, he worked for the Northern Territory Government treasury, large pastoral empires Stanbroke Pastoral Company and Heytesbury Pastoral Company, and exporters Austrex, SEAF and Austasia.