Booktopia Group Limited announced the appointment of David Nenke as the company's new Chief Executive Officer Mr. Nenke will report to Mr. Peter George, Chair of the Booktopia Board of Directors and will commence on 8 May 2023. Australian-born Mr. Nenke joins the company with more than 25 years of executive experience in building, scaling, and transforming digital-focused retail businesses, including the last 15 years working in the US for Amazon.com Inc. and Barnes & Noble Education Inc. Mr. Nenke has a strong track record of driving enterprise value through strategic and operational innovation and bringing to companies his multi-faceted executive experience across finance, management, sales, marketing, product development, business development, web services, logistics and supply chain management. Mr. Nenke most recently served as President of Digital Student Solutions (DSS) at Barnes & Noble Education, where he was responsible for the company's direct-to-consumer DSS segment.

Before joining BNED, Mr. Nenke spent more than 12 years as a senior executive with Amazon in Seattle. Mr. Nenke's was General Manager of Amazon Explore, where he led a global team in developing and launching an interactive live-streaming retail service. Before that, Mr. Nenke served as General Manager of Amazon Photos and General Manager of Amazon Grocery.

Prior to moving to the United States, Mr. Nenke held senior finance positions at Coles Group Limited, Shopfast and Cable & Wireless Optus. Mr. Nenke holds a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) from Curtin University and an MBA from the University of Sydney.