Riaan Gustav Hanekom

Riaan was appointed as the group chief financial officer for STAR on 18 August 2017. He completed his articles with Ernst & Young Inc. 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 admin 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 Pepkor Holdings in February 2016. Riaan also serves as a director on a number of subsidiaries in the STAR group