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Plexus Worldwide has appointed Stuart MacMillan as the health and wellness company's new Chief Executive & Growth Officer (CEGO), leading Plexus into Vision 30: a strategic plan to establish Plexus as the trusted leader in gut-health education and innovation.
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MacMillan is a retail and direct selling industry veteran with more than three decades of leadership experience in sales, marketing, operations, and beyond. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Global Development Officer at Plexus, where he led efforts to build internal efficiencies in sales and operations, resulting in strategic growth and new customer offerings.
“It will be my honor to take Plexus to new levels of growth and awareness,” said Plexus CEGO Stuart MacMillan. “The legacy of servant leadership, quality products, and unprecedented levels of customer service was spearheaded by our founders, Tarl Robinson and Alec Clark. We only need to follow the path they’ve forged to ensure great success for the future of Plexus.”
He is also the recipient of the 2022 American Business Lifetime Achievement Award and has led several retail and direct selling companies to achieve high levels of strategic growth. Following a distinguished career in telecommunications and direct selling, where he’s reached the highest ranks of leadership, MacMillan is also dedicated to speaking and sharing valuable leadership lessons he’s gained along the way.
“We hold our Plexus Brand Ambassadors in the highest esteem,” said Plexus co-founder Tarl Robinson. “Stuart’s care and high regard for our Brand Ambassadors and customers was unprecedented from the start. He has more than shown his ability to take Vision 30 into its next phase and we look forward to being alongside him as we reach our strategic goals.”
“There’s no doubt that Stuart will be a driving force as we strengthen Plexus’ position as the premier authority in gut health and champion network marketing as a preferred business model,” said Plexus co-founder Alec Clark. “His proven leadership and experience building successful businesses will be invaluable as we continue to innovate, grow, and shape the future of Plexus. Tarl and I look forward to working alongside him and supporting his leadership as we move this vision forward.”
Robinson and Clark will serve on the newly formed Plexus Executive Board, providing strategic counsel on operations, customer experience and product development.
MacMillan will work strategically with Vision 30 as a guide and global expansion as a goal, digital transformations like a new ecommerce platform, automations and specific analytics for the Plexus independent sales force, also known as Brand Ambassadors, are leading Plexus to become the leading authority on gut health.
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About Plexus Worldwide
Founded in 2008, Plexus Worldwide is a pioneer in the gut health space, providing products that support whole-body wellness from the inside out. Our network of Brand Ambassadors works to bring these products directly to people, families, and communities seeking sustainable transformation. It’s through this simple business model that we fulfill our mission: To ignite Hope, Health, and Happiness for those who want more out of life.
Plexus Worldwide promotes experienced leader, Stuart MacMillan, to Chief Executive and Growth Officer.
It was a telling remark, especially when revisited two months later.
“I probably won’t be real happy and smiley,” then-England cricket captain Ben Stokes told reporters after beating New Zealand in a hard-fought test match at Lord’s in June, “until I get up there and share a proper beer with the boys.”
After all, having a post-match drink with teammates and sometimes rivals in the dressing room is a cricketing tradition as old as time.
Is English cricket taking it to the extreme?
The off-field conduct and drinking habits of England's men's squad are back under scrutiny this week after another nightclub incident involving one of its players.
This time it was Brydon Carse, a 31-year-old fast bowler and one of the team’s success stories in recent years. The images of him outside a club in the early hours of Sunday in handcuffs and surrounded by police officers were hard to ignore, especially as the saga came days after a plea by newly appointed England captain Joe Root.
“Ultimately you’re grown adults,” said Root, speaking after England's leadership opted to scrap a midnight curfew that had been imposed on the men's team following a string of controversial late-night incidents.
“You know what it takes to play for England, you know what your responsibilities are off the field, and we need to make sure we don’t find ourselves with any little situations off the field.”
Seems the message didn't get across to his players.
“If I’m being brutally honest, I’m really hacked off. I’m really disappointed,” Root said in a news conference on Tuesday.
“It’s not the isolated incident itself,” Root added. “It’s the fact we continually keep making stupid mistakes away from the game and it’s detracting from what we’re doing on the field.”
And so, with England's Cricket Regulator getting down to work investigating another off-the-field issue, it's back to square one.
Is it time for a cultural reset? In this age of sports science and ultra-professionalism, there are wider questions over whether cricketers should have a beer after a match. Or do players just need to be a bit smarter?
“Just have some kind of brain cells amongst you, seeing what’s just gone on,” former England captain Alastair Cook said on the Stick to Cricket podcast released Tuesday. “Surely someone says either don’t go to that place, or at 12 a.m. or 1 a.m. say, 'Let’s go and find ourselves somewhere quieter if we want to carry on.”
Here's a look at the late-night incidents that have brought shame on English cricket:
Before going to Australia for what proved a humiliating Ashes series, England traveled to New Zealand in October for a white-ball tour.
A day before the third and final one-day international, team captain Harry Brook was hit by a bouncer after being denied entry to a club in Wellington. Teammates Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue also were present on the night out.
Brook was fined about 30,000 pounds ($40,300) at the time and given a final warning about his future conduct — sanctions not made public until months later, after the Ashes series that England lost 4-1.
“I want to apologize for my actions,” Brook said. “I fully accept that my behavior was wrong and brought embarrassment to both myself and the England team.”
Between the second and third tests in the Ashes series against Australia in December, England visited the resort town of Noosa on the Sunshine Coast for some downtime in the midst of a long tour.
While there, footage was taken of England opening batter Ben Duckett looking disorientated as he talked to a group of people on a night out and saying he was unable to remember how to get back to his hotel.
“I am sorry for that incident, it was not professional and shouldn’t have happened,” Duckett later said. “There is no hiding away from it.”
Rob Key, England managing director of men’s cricket, said he would investigate the drinking habits of the England team.
Chastened by the Ashes hammering in the winter, England began its so-called “reset” with a home series against New Zealand in June.
After winning the first test, Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson continued their post-match celebrations at Lord's by going on a night out in London, during which a member of England’s security staff was reportedly struck by a rugby player from English club Saracens.
The fallout was huge: Stokes and Atkinson were left out of the second test amid an investigation that ultimately found that no “regulatory breach” had occurred. Stokes then returned for the third match, only to announce his retirement from international cricket midway through it, saying the past few months had “taken its toll.” Brendon McCullum then was fired as test coach, while Key said the England and Wales Cricket Board was considering imposing an alcohol ban on the team.
Strictly speaking, Carse's night out wasn't while he was on England duty. It came after his club side, Durham, completed a big win over Derbyshire in the domestic County Championship on Saturday.
Carse was among the players selected in the England squad for the first test against Pakistan last week, but wasn't picked to play in the match and was released to feature for Durham.
Ahead of his ill-fated night out, Carse had been retained in England's squad for the second test starting Thursday. He was dropped on Monday because an investigation was ongoing into the incident, which saw Carse held in handcuffs by police after, according to Britain's Press Association, being briefly arrested.
England bowler Matthew Potts was with Carse on the night out, while footage that circulated on social media showed Stokes watching on as Carse was in handcuffs.
With Carse yet to comment on the incident, it was left to Root to say his teammate is “very upset, has been very apologetic, and understands his actions.
“I don’t think it has been a very good look, the recent past, if I’m being brutally honest,” Root said. “At all.”
See AP’s full cricket coverage here
FILE - England's Ben Duckett leaves the pitch after losing his wicket during the first day of the test match between England and New Zealand at Lord's cricket ground in London, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE - England's captain Harry Brook,plays a shot during the second T20 cricket match between England and India in Manchester, England, Saturday, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)
FILE - England's captain Ben Stokes walks onto the field before the start of play on the fourth day of the Test match between England and New Zealand at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE - England's Joe Root leaves the pitch after losing his wicket during the second day of the test match between England and New Zealand at Lord's cricket ground in London, Friday, June 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE - England's Brydon Carse appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Australia's Travis Head during play on the last day of the fifth and final Ashes cricket test between England and Australia in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
