Gerhard Hayes

After graduating from Stellenbosch, Gerhard joined the Shoprite Group in 1998 as a project manager for Financial & Value-Added Services. A few years later he completed his B.Comm (Hons) degree and was also promoted to General Manager of Financial & Value Added Services. While he was there he was also appointed as General Manager of the Shoprite Checkers Pharmaceutical Division where he established the Medi+Rite pharmaceutical chain. In 2007 he was also appointed CEO of Computicket. After successfully building and integrating Medirite pharmacies and Computicket into the Shoprite Checkers chain, Gerhard was appointed to the Shoprite Checkers board in 2009 as Director of Financial and Value-Added Services. Gerhard joined Massmart as the Group Financial Services Executive in November 2015.