Adairs Retail Group’s head of technology, Rohan Penman, is leaving the organisation after seven years in the role. Penman is moving to Unilever’s retail tea business, T2 as global head of technology. In an email sent to Adairs staff on Friday, Penman said he would be leaving the company on April 13 and will begin his position at T2 in mid-May. He told CIO Australia that the list of projects at T2 is quite large and includes the roll-out of the Afterpay point-of-sale system, a warehouse solution review and possible replacement of the retailer’s human resource management system. “They have lots of projects that they’d like completed and it’s a very exciting time ahead from the looks of things,” he said. “I’ll be very busy indeed.” Penman was a member of last year’s CIO50 list and led Adairs Retail Group’s ‘Project Lightyear’, a technology initiative to replace disparate financial, inventory management and retail solutions with a customised implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX. Under the project, Penman and his team consolidated the platforms that the business was running which served its 150 stores. He also led the rollout of data analytics innovations, starting with an intelligent traffic counter rollout and the Microsoft SQL 2016 platform. This enabled Penman and his team to deploy a full business intelligence dashboard suite for its mobile users and stores. The intelligent traffic counters, which detect the WiFi signal in retail customers’ smartphone – have been rolled out in 30 stores so far and will deployed in 70 more stores soon, Penman said late last year. They provide information about traffic flows and the time customers spend in each store after promotional activities have been rolled out by the marketing department. Follow CIO Australia on Twitter and Like us on Facebookhellip;Twitter: @CIO_Australia,Facebook: CIO Australia, or take part in the CIO conversation onLinkedIn: CIO Australia Follow Byron Connolly on Twitter:@ByronConnolly Related content feature The CIO’s new role: Orchestrator-in-chief CIOs have unique insight into everything that happens in a company. Some are using that insight to take on a more strategic role. By Minda Zetlin Dec 04, 2023 12 mins CIO CIO CIO opinion Fortifying the bridge between tech and business in the C-suite To be considered a tech-forward company today, there has to be a focus on tech fluency across the C-suite, which creates a unique opportunity for CIOs to uplevel their roles and expand their footprint across the enterprise. By Diana Bersohn and Rachel Barton Dec 04, 2023 7 mins CIO CIO CIO brandpost Sponsored by G42 Understanding the impact of AI on society, environment and economy By Jane Chan Dec 03, 2023 4 mins Artificial Intelligence opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe