Executive commitee

Johan Enslin (37)
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Lewis Group

Johan Enslin is the chief executive officer and his biography can be found here

Les Davies is the chief financial officer and his biography can be found here

Charles has spent his entire working career in the retail industry, specialising for the last 20 years in information technology. During his earlier career, he had operational experience in general retail management. Prior to joining Lewis Stores in 1998 he spent nine years at McCarthy Limited.

Neil spent the first decade of his career as an HR practitioner with the Transnet Group. In 2004 he joined the Naspers Group, initially as group HR manager for Via Africa and then spent four years as general manager human resources for Media24, the print media division of Naspers. He joined the Lewis Group in September 2008. 

Derek has over 30 years’ retail experience, starting at Pick n Pay Stores where he progressed from trainee floor manager to buyer, as procurement manager at Airflex Furniture Industries and as the electrical merchandise executive at Morkels Limited. Derek joined Lewis as the General Manager: Merchandise in May 2000.