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Karen Hammond · CHRO South Africa | SA News

Job Title: Group head of people

Company: Meridian Group

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Karen Hammond is currently the group head of people at Meridian Group.

She joined the organisation in 2024 after nearly five years as executive manager: human resources at Sun International, where she led strategic HR initiatives across the hospitality and gaming group. Before that, she spent seven years as regional human resources manager at Dimension Data.

Earlier in her career, she served as a senior human resources business partner at Nedbank.

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2024 – Present  Group head of people, Meridian Group

2019 – 2024       Executive manager: human…

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