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financial and operational review: executive committee
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From back left to bottom right: Les Davies, Chris Heiberg, Brett van Aswegen, Johan Enslin, Charles Irwin and Alan Smart |
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Operating board of Lewis Stores (Pty) Ltd
Alan Smart (63)
Chief Executive Officer
Alan Smart is the chief executive officer and his biography is in the board of directors.
Les Davies (52) CA(SA)
Chief Financial Officer
Les Davies is the chief financial officer and his biography is in the board of directors.
Johan Enslin (34)
Chief Operating Officer
Johan was appointed chief operating officer of the group with effect 1 April 2007. He is responsible for the entire retail operations of the group.
Johan joined the Lewis Group as a salesman in August 1993. He has, while climbing the ranks within the organisation, held various operational positions including branch manager, regional controller and divisional general manager. In 2002, he was made general manager operations and with effect 1 April 2005, the operations director of Lewis Stores (Pty) Ltd, being responsible for all facets of Lewis and Best Electric store operations.
Chris Heiberg (60)
Group Marketing and Merchandise Director
Chris has been the merchandise and marketing director of Lewis Stores (Pty) Ltd since February 1984. His responsibilities include the management of all product offerings to consumers and marketing strategies for all Lewis’ divisions.
Chris’ career with Lewis Group spans over 30 years. He became a regional controller in April 1980 and a divisional general manager in April 1982. In 1984, he was appointed merchandise and marketing director.
Charles Irwin (54)
Group IT Director
Charles has been IT director of Lewis Stores (Pty) Ltd since March 1999. In his capacity, he is responsible for ensuring the maintenance and development of the group’s information systems.
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.
Brett van Aswegen (33) – BCom, MBA
Credit Risk Director
While completing his BCom degree part-time through UNISA, Brett started working for the Edcon Group in 1994. After having held various positions within Edcon Credit Division, Brett joined Standard Bank where he worked in Operational Risk within the Retail Banking Division before joining Lewis Group in 1999 as the group risk manager.
Since joining Lewis, Brett has seen through the implementation of a centralised credit application processing system, introduced credit scoring and customer credit limit facilities and implemented an account management system focusing on the areas of behavioural scoring, limit management and strategic direct marketing. Brett was promoted to general manager of Customer Management in 2002, completed his MBA through UCT in 2003 and was appointed to the board of Lewis Stores (Pty) Ltd as credit risk director on 1 September 2006.