🔒 Alec Hogg: Barry Hore’s R10bn legacy

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Barry Hore’s handover of the CEO role at Discovery Bank to the group’s SA head Hylton Kallner (pictured above), was warmly greeted by investors. As the graph above illustrates, the financial services group’s market cap rose sharply on the news.

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Investors interpret this changing of the guard as confirmation Hore’s team has delivered the complex platform to enable practical implementation of the group’s Shared Value strategy. Discovery believes this will change banking in the same way as its strategic concept is transforming health insurance worldwide.
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It’s the third major milestone in Hore’s extraordinary career. He first emerged as the genius geek who transformed was Richard Laubscher’s Nedbank from laggard to SA banking’s tech leader. Then, from 2006 to 2014, he managed installation of the world class eFiling system at SA Revenue Services.

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The reaction of the Discovery share price confirms that Hore has delivered on another challenging project, the tech-savvy disruptor once again breaking new ground. Investors quantified the value of his success at R10bn. Some legacy.

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