Job Title: CIO
Company: Pepkor Holdings
Jason Peisl is CIO at Pepkor Holdings, a role he has held since 2024. Before this, he served as CTO at Ackermans. Between 2016 and 2023 he was IS executive: customer applications at Pick n Pay, and earlier served in technical and architecture roles at Pick n Pay, Homechoice and Woolworths.
He began his tech career as a developer at Bytes System Integration and over time progressed from developer to senior developer and analyst programmer at Woolworths, eventually leading application development.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and information systems from University of Cape Town. He later acquired skills and certifications related to IT and project management, including a project-management diploma and several Microsoft- and Bytes-based IT courses between 2007 and 2010 culminating in an ITIL v3 certificate in IT service management.
Work
2024 – Present CIO, Pepkor Holdings
2023 – 2024 CTO, Ackermans
2016 – 2023 IS Executive: Customer Applications, Pick n Pay
2012 – 2016 IS Group Solutions Architect and Capability Leader, Pick n Pay
2011 – 2012 IT Manager, Homechoice
2008 – 2011 Head of Application Development, Woolworths
2005 – 2008 Senior Developer / Analyst Programmer / Team Leader, Woolworths
2002 – 2008 Developer / Analyst Programmer, Woolworths
1996 – 2001 Developer, Bytes System Integration
Education
2010 – 2010 ITIL v3 Certificate in IT Service Management, Prometric
2008 – 2008 Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Bytes
2008 – 2008 Diploma in Project Management, FTI
2007 – 2007 Designing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database, Bytes
2007 – 2007 Programming with C#, Bytes
2007 – 2007 Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials, Bytes
1997 – 1997 True Basic, VB6, SQL, System design principles, WS&L
1989 Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting & Information Systems, University of Cape Town
About company: Pepkor Holdings is a South African retail and finance business that aims to help value-conscious, mass-market customers create a comfortable lifestyle by offering affordable furniture, appliances, and consumer electronics.
