Mr. Hayat was appointed as an Executive Director and Interim Chief Executive Officer on 1st of January 2021. He joined the Group as the Managing Director of Collins Debden Limited on 19th of June 2017.
Mr. Hayat has extensive retail management experience of more than 27 years in the UK and Internationally. He worked for Optical Express from 1995 to 2004 as a Regional Manager.
He left and joined Vision Express as the Regional Manager for one year before returning to Optical Express and worked as the Regional Director from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he joined Alshaya Group in Kuwait and managed operations of six countries in the Middle East. From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Hayat worked as the Divisional Director for the Change Group. A retail foreign exchange company, responsible for northern Europe and the USA.
Mr. Hayat holds a General Cambridge Examination Advance Level Certificate.
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