Riaan Hanekom

Riaan was appointed as group chief financial officer on 18 August 2017. He completed his articles with Ernst & Young in 1995, whereafter he spent six years with Shoprite as a financial manager. He joined Woolworths in 2001, and was the Woolworths retail operations group head of finance and administration when he joined the Pepkor group in 2006, as commercial director of Shoe City. He became the commercial director of Ackermans in 2008, and financial director of Ackermans in 2009. He was appointed as the group financial director of the Pepkor group in February 2016. Riaan serves as a director on a number of subsidiary boards in the Pepkor group.