Wesfarmers longtime chief executive Richard Goyder will step down in November and filling his shoes will be the group's industrials division's managing director Rob Scott.
* Rob Scott, 47, is an Olympian who won a silver medal with rowing partner David Weightman in the men's coxless pairs at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
* He is currently the managing director of Wesfarmers' industrials division that operates chemical, energy and fertislier businesses and the group's coal mines.
* He has been promoted with immediate effect to the company's new deputy chief executive position and will continue as the industrials division's chief until July 1.
* He first joined Wesfarmers in 1993 before leaving the company to move into investment banking.
* He returned to the group in 2004, becoming managing director of its insurance division in 2007.
* In 2013, he became the finance director of Wesfarmers' core business Coles supermarkets.
* In October 2014 he was appointed managing director of Wesfarmers' financial services.
* In August 2015, Mr Scott became the group's industrials division MD.
* On February 14, 2017, he is appointed as chief executive Richard Goyder's successor and will immediately shadow him as deputy CEO until Mr Goyder steps down at the AGM in November.
