Overview

Gender

male

As the CEO of takealot.com, Kim is responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic leadership of the business.

Kim founded the company in 2010 when completing a transaction together with Tiger Global Management, a US based Hedge Fund, to purchase an existing online retail company TAKE2 – which has subsequently been transformed into takealot.com.

Kim has served at an executive level within the Naspers Group and other South African companies, having been involved from the very early stages of internet evolution and e-commerce in South Africa.

He is a Chartered Accountant with an honours in accounting from The University of Pretoria and C.T.A from UNISA. Kim completed his articles with KPMG.