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Gary Hadfield is listed as eCommerce & Digital Strategist | eCommerce CEO (15 Years) | Fractional CSGO | Ecosystem Builder with 20+ Years of Experience | ex-Naspers, ex-HomechoiceIntl at DigiRetail Consulting, based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Gary Hadfield.
Gary Hadfield previously worked as Founder at Digiretail Consulting and Advisory Board Member at Link Commerce. Gary Hadfield holds Naspers Executive Program : Network Effects And Strategy, Executive Education from Harvard Business School.
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CEO ► Leads Cross-Functional Teams | High Adaptability | Unlocks Value | Links Strategies | Leverages Data|I am an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a proven track record of success in building and scaling eCommerce and omnichannel businesses, entrepreneurship, driving growth, and building ecosystems across Sub-Saharan African and other territories. I am passionate about achieving success through empowering teams, collaboration, leveraging data, and combining this with a culture that promotes customer empathy and contributes to a sustainable business.Throughout my career, I have successfully built and scaled up pioneering B2C and B2B2C eCommerce multicategory retail platforms into market leaders. I am particularly proud of my contributions to Kalahari.com (owned by Multinational, Naspers that merged with Takealot.com in 2015) and Loot.co.za. By focusing on customer/seller needs and leveraging data/technology to create seamless user experiences, we were able to drive rapid growth and establish these platforms as market leaders. I pride myself on frequently demonstrating high adaptability, quickly adjusting to new environments and challenges, and effectively leveraging my skills and experience to achieve success in any given situation.I believe that success is a team effort and that building strong relationships with key stakeholders is essential to achieving sustainable growth. I lead by example and create a culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Through having a global mindset and extensive international experience/exposure, I have gained insights into many cultures, market structures and businesses across the world. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working with startups and multinationals across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.As an eCommerce leader with a wealth of experience in the industry, I understand that there are many levers at play in any successful eCommerce venture. I combine the art and science of connecting the dots to understand the short- and long-term implications for any given decision on areas like customer/seller experience, GMV, cash flows, margins, key metrics, unit economics, marketing spend, and logistics/last-mile delivery. I regularly attend and participate in events like Summer Davos (WEF) Annual New Champion meetings in China, London AI Week, and Washington D.C. Africa Fintech Summit. This allows me to be exposed to new developments in AI, data science, and other disciplines, gain valuable insights, and new learnings and challenge my thinking.
Listed skills include E Commerce, Management, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, and 17 others.
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London Area, United Kingdom
Primarily, specialise in delivering strategic solutions for eCommerce and retail companies. Expertise lies in deep domain knowledge,cross-functional leadership, fostering collaborations, ecosystem building, and creative problem-solving. The focus revolves around e-commerce, retail, and associated strategic analysis, coupled with data and customer-centric.
London, England, United Kingdom
COO until exit of a private equity funded UK Based B2B SaaS business and B2C app that is a market leader in international cross-border eCommerce. Award winning marketplace platform, which solved multiple payments and logistics issues, expanded rapidly from operating in a single country to over 60 countries across four continents. Link Commerce behind.
London, England, United Kingdom
Launched December 2020There was a need/gap in the market due to a rise in veganism and eco-consciousness to build a scalable multi-category plant-based and sustainable marketplace. The vision was to make it easier for consumers to make more sustainable and healthy living choices, whilst have a positive impact on the planet. Great opportunity to make a real.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Overall leadership responsibility for P&L, setting strategic direction, operational strategy, organisational leadership and creating a customer centric organization. Initiated strategies to grow Loot from a five category product B2C online retailer in 2011 to an eighteen category B2B2C business in 2019, including categories, such as fashion, beauty, home.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Online World Travel (Pty) Ltd t/a Gotravel24 ( Naspers) Joint venture with Comair ( British Airways)
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Online classifieds business: Vottle ( Pty ) Ltd
City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Overall leadership responsibility for P&L, setting strategic direction, operational strategy, organisational leadership and creating a customer centric organisation. Participated in annual Naspers global CEO Conferences ( Strategy Sessions) in e.g. Holland,Japan and South Africa. He was also involved in several due diligence exercises including that of.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
kalahari.com Internet Retailer, Leserskring and Leisure Books Mail Order (Bertelsmann Model)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Kalahari.com ( Launched in 1999)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
First music download site in South Africa operating a WMA pay model.
South Africa
Built merchandise forecasting models across clothing, footwear, homeware and textiles for catalogue business. Did extensive work with merchandise managers, buyers, planners and marketing to optimise page/insert space and turnover/margins. Launched new Business Unit and worked with teams in Australia and United Kingdom. Had P&L responsibility and built.
Program run by : Professor Bharat N. Anand Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Activities and Societies: AIESEC Member, House Committee Member, U21 rugby team and regional finalist in Huisgenoot (Naspers-owned.
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Gary Hadfield works for DigiRetail Consulting.
Gary Hadfield is listed as eCommerce & Digital Strategist | eCommerce CEO (15 Years) | Fractional CSGO | Ecosystem Builder with 20+ Years of Experience | ex-Naspers, ex-HomechoiceIntl at DigiRetail Consulting.
Gary Hadfield is based in City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa while working with DigiRetail Consulting.
Gary Hadfield has worked for Digiretail Consulting, Link Commerce, Getvov.Com, Loot.Co.Za (Loot Online (Pty) Ltd), and Naspers Limited.
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Gary Hadfield holds Naspers Executive Program : Network Effects And Strategy, Executive Education from Harvard Business School.
Gary Hadfield is listed with skills including E Commerce, Management, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Business Strategy, Negotiation, Strategy, and Marketing Management.
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