--- title: "Adriaan Scheeres Archives" description: "Adriaan Scheeres" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/pragma-social-placeholder-blue.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/tag/adriaan-scheeres/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/tag/adriaan-scheeres/.md last_converted: 2026-10-23T06:33:07.794Z --- # Tag: Adriaan Scheeres Pragma’s CEO Adriaan Scheeres ##### A new era at Pragma: Scott Gibson appointed CEO Designate April 17, 2024 After an illustrious 34-year tenure as co-founder and CEO of the Pragma Group, Adriaan Scheeres has announced his retirement, marking the end of an era characterised by innovation, growth, and global impact. Adriaan’s leadership has been instrumental in transforming Pragma into a premier enterprise asset management company with a distinguished clientele across the globe. As [...] ##### Tags Chief Executive Officer Leadership Change Scott Gibson Adriaan Scheeres ##### Pragma | 30 Years in the making July 15, 2020 2020 might forever be known as the year in which Covid 19 struck, but life goes on despite this and many other challenges that businesses face. It is with this mindset, that we take a look back at an engineering firm that was born on the first of June 1990. “Politically South Africa was in [...] ##### Tags 30 Years AMIP Arnold Botha Asset Care Pack CMS Cost Digital Digital Transformation Empowering Supplier Industrial Engineering Information Technology IoT technology Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Mobile Oil and Gas Industry Performance Pragma Brazil Risk University of Stellenbosch Adriaan Scheeres Asset Care Asset Management Asset Management Improvement Planning framework Covid19 Enterprise Asset Management IIoT Industry 4.0 Martec Netherlands On Key Physical Asset Management Pragma Pragma Academy Reatile Group SOuth Africa ##### How Industry 4.0 Drives Asset Management Efficiency March 5, 2020 Industry 4.0 has many advantages and different applications in different industries. For maintenance management, the On Key EAM system enables asset owners to create a digital twin to know precisely where their assets are, what type of assets they have and their asset value. ##### Tags Adriaan Scheeres IIoT Industry 4.0 Maintenance management On Key ##### Asset Management Consultancy Acquisition | Netherlands October 14, 2019 Pragma, one of SA’s leading physical asset management engineering firms, acquired Netherlands-based consultancy, CMS Asset Management, on 1 October 2019. CMS specialises in engineering advisory services related to maintenance and asset management. Pragma CEO and founder Adriaan Scheeres says the acquisition is well aligned to the international expansion strategy developed during 2018. “We believe we [...] ##### Tags Adriaan Scheeres Asset Management Benelux countries CMS Asset Management Europe Henk Wynjeterp Maintainance Maintenance Planner Qualification Netherlands On-Key Enterprise Asset Management Cloud Platform original equipment manufacturers Pragma Academy Reatile Group Ronnie Taljaard Vopak ##### Managing your assets can increase your return by up to 30% September 20, 2019 Pragma’s CEO Adriaan Scheeres explains Pragma CEO and founder Adriaan Scheeres, was busy with his Master’s degree in Information Technology when he came up with the idea of starting a consulting business in asset management. As the strategic driving force behind Pragma’s vision to become the world’s first-choice supplier of asset management solutions, Scheeres also [...] ##### Tags Adriaan Scheeres Asset Management Fourth Industrial Revolution life cycle Maintainance On Key Pragma service plan ##### Reatile acquires 37.54% stake in Pragma Holdings January 31, 2019 The Reatile Group, an investment holding company, has acquired a 37.54% stake in Pragma, one of SA’s leading enterprise asset and facilities management companies. This move enhances Pragma’s potential international growth, while accelerating the organisation’s transformation agenda. “I’ve been involved with Pragma for a while, and I’ve known Reatile for much longer. I believe it’s [...] ##### Tags 37.54% Adriaan Scheeres Chairman of Reatile Engineering firm Level 1 BEE Level 1 BEE engineering company Pragma Pragma Africa Pragma Holdings Reatile Reatile investment company Simphiwe Mehlomakulu