Mr Price Group’s Taryn de Bruin

Taryn de Bruin is a proud Durbanite. She grew up in Pinetown and has worked in Durbs all her life. After school, she earned a BA degree, before adding a handful of extra qualifications and certificates, including a postgraduate degree in business management from the Management College of South Africa.

De Bruin kicked off her career in marketing before segueing into IT, working in solutions roles in telephony businesses and gradually climbing the corporate ladder. Today, she’s head of IT (infrastructure and cloud) for the Mr Price Group, which has over 22 000 end-users, 1 600 stores, two distribution centres, three head office campuses, and around 300 applications. Both end-user support and the infrastructure engineering teams – which include cloud, systems, database and network engineers – report to her.