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Leadership

Operational transformation leadership grounded in governance continuity, enterprise accountability, and operational delivery experience.

TRC leadership exists to protect operational outcomes when transformation pressure, governance complexity, and commercial consequence converge simultaneously.

Enterprise transformation environments require more than programme management. They require operational visibility, governance discipline, and leadership willing to surface difficult realities early enough for organisations to act.

The leaders inside TRC have spent material portions of their careers inside live transformation environments — not designing them from a distance. That operational proximity is what makes governance accountability meaningful rather than procedural.

Operational Leadership

Accountability & Operational Focus.

Gavin Peacock

Group CEO
Governance Strategy Executive Accountability

Patrick Hesnan

Group COO
Operational Governance Execution Oversight

Rihana Hoosain

SAP Global Delivery Lead
SAP Delivery Governance ERP Operational Readiness

Steven Maguire

Head of Client Advisory
Enterprise Retail Advisory SAP Operating Environments

Dereck Teefy

Operations Director
Operational Execution Programme Operations

Riaad Hoosain

Run Governance Lead
Post-Go-Live Governance SAP Operational Continuity
What TRC Leadership Believe

Operational Principles forged in delivery.

01

Governance exists to surface operational truth early enough for leadership to act — not to document what went wrong after the fact.

02

Operational complexity accelerates faster than executive visibility in most transformation environments. That gap is where programmes fail.

03

Post-go-live is where transformation accountability actually begins. The programme does not end at cutover — it enters its most consequential phase.

04

Retail transformation is an operational convergence problem — not a store technology project. Most implementations underestimate that distinction until it becomes expensive.

05

Transformation optimism without operational visibility becomes governance exposure. Organisations that surface pressure early preserve choices that others lose.

06

Independent governance protects all parties simultaneously. Structural independence is not adversarial — it is operational discipline that preserves programme outcomes.
Operational Context

Three Decades of Retail & ERP Operational Evolution.

1990s

Foundation

Disconnected store systems and isolated POS environments. Retail operations fragmented by geography, format, and technology estate. ERP adoption nascent and largely finance-led.
2000s

Convergence

ERP convergence and centralised retail operations. SAP becomes the operating spine of large enterprise retail. Transformation programmes grow in scale, complexity, and governance consequence.
2010s

Disruption

Omnichannel pressure transforms operational retail models. The boundary between physical and digital retail collapses. ERP programmes must now accommodate inventory, fulfilment, CX, and commerce convergence simultaneously.
2020s

Ecosystem Complexity

Retail operating environments become interconnected ecosystems requiring governance continuity across ERP, fulfilment, CX, pricing, inventory, data, and AI readiness. The SAP S/4HANA migration cycle creates the most consequential transformation pressure in a generation.
TRC has operated through each phase of this operational evolution across fashion, furniture, airport retail, garden centres, hospitality-integrated retail, and omnichannel operating environments. That operational continuity is not a credential — it is the foundation of our governance authority.
Direct Engagement
TRC leadership remains directly engaged inside transformation environments where governance continuity, operational visibility, and executive decision quality materially affect outcomes.