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Clickatell's leaders bring decades of diverse experience and a history of success. Combining
business acumen with technical savvy, these executives guide our talented employees to create
innovative products and solutions that enable customers around the world to trust us with their messages.
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Pieter De Villiers
CEO
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Pieter is the CEO and one of the four co-founders of Clickatell. Starting his career in 1997 in the optometry field; Pieter has over 9 years of sales, new business management and product development experience under his belt. During this time, he took a radical shift in his career and accepted the opportunity for a partnership offer and moved into the IT sector. He joined Micrologix in 1999, whereby his primary responsibilities included the identifying of internet-related opportunities and the management of its e-commerce strategy. |
Pieter recognized early in the game the need for a single point of entry for global text delivery was essential for market penetration and adoption of this new mobile technology. So in February 2000, Pieter made the decision to invest in developing mobile communication strategies and became a founding member and CEO of Clickatell. Today, Clickatell is recognized as a worldwide leader in mobile messaging providing 'any message, anywhere' services to over 8,000 global enterprises.
Pieter participates in various forums and interest groups including but not limited to the GSM Association (www.gsm.org),
Wireless Internet Caucus (www.ctia.org), Open Mobile Alliance (
www.openmobilealliance.org), Wireless Application Service Provider Association (www.waspa.org.za)
and the Mobile Data Association (www.mda-mobiledata.org).
Concise details of previous speaking experience
Apart from his participation in various forums and interests groups, Pieter de Villiers has presented, on numerous occasions, his thoughts
on the mobile messaging value chain at a number of mobile conferences in the US, Europe and Africa. His most recent event, being the CTIA
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Chuck Drake
EVP of Marketing
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Chuck Drake, a seasoned marketing executive with a strong track record of leading top-tier companies, was appointed as Clickatell's Executive Vice President of Global Marketing in July 2007.
Chuck brings with him more than 20 years of marketing experience in B2C and B2B business and marketing environments, previously holding positions of increasing leadership.
Building on the success of his previous achievements, Chuck will manage the building of robust infrastructures to support millions of mobile transactions, with a strong focus in the financial services sector. |
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Prior to joining Clickatell, Chuck held the position of Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at MarkMonitor, a global leader in online corporate identity protection services, and Corillion where he lead both companies to achieve market leadership status in their respective Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Enterprise software markets serving Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, High Technology, CPG and other verticals worldwide. |
Bill Wolfe
EVP Reasearch & Development
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Bill Wolfe, a senior executive with an excellent track record in managing business cycles, business planning, product innovation, development, marketing and sales, was appointed as Executive Vice President of Global Research & Development Clickatell, in August 2007.
Heading up Clickatell's Engineering team both in the US and South Africa, Bill's responsibilities will include building a world-class research & Development organization in order to meet Clickatell's customer needs in a rapidly changing environment. |
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Bill will also assist the EVP of marketing in bringing a strong focus to the financial services sector and developing large infrastructures in order to support millions of mobile transactions.
Bill joins Clickatell from VeriSign and Openwave Systems were he was responsible for managing critical business cycles to provide complex, intelligent, highly secure and reliable enterprise infrastructures to deliver core communications services targeting the Entertainment, Technology and Telecommunications markets. |
Jim Queen
US Country Manager & EVP Operations
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Jim Queen holds joint titles of US Country Manager and Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Clickatell. Jim is also a founder member of Multimode Inc, with whom Clickatell merged with in March 2006.
Jim brings 29 of years experience in executive management, operations, sales, support, engineering, partner and market development. He held management positions at Rolm Corporation, Rational Software and Expersoft. |
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Most recently, Jim was the VP/GM Operations for Mobileway's North American business unit responsible for all operations, sales, support, and business development activities. He was the Director of Business Development for the Software Systems Group, JavaSoft division at Sun Microsystems. Jim managed business development teams targeting vertical markets, including wireless, digital television, and automotive telematics. |
Spencer Young
UK Country Manager & VP Sales: Europe
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In June 2007, Clickatell appointed Spencer Young as its Vice President for European Sales in order to head Clickatell's continued expansion into Europe as the leading provider of enterprise-standard mobile messaging solutions.
Based in Clickatell's London offices, Spencer also takes on the role of UK Country Manager, where he is responsible for the management of Clickatell's portfolio of UK-based customers, with a particular focus on the burgeoning financial and healthcare sectors, including some of the largest banks and broadcasting companies in Europe, as well as the NHS and European Union. |
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Spencer has nearly 20 years of field sales and management experience in enterprise technology, and joined Clickatell from enterprise search and retrieval company, FAST, where he held the title of Regional VP for Western Europe delivering 65% year-on-year revenue growth, including a record number of new business wins across the region. |
Deon van Heerden
SA Country Manager & VP Sales: MEA
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Deon van Heerden, former UK country manager, was appointed as country manager and vice president of sales for the Middle East and Africa in April 2007. Deon successfully launched Clickatell's UK sales office and achieved a foothold in the very mature European market in just 18 months. This included securing some of the largest banks and broadcasting companies in Europe as well as the NHS and European Union as clients.
Van Heerden also looks after sales in South Africa, the Middle East and Africa, building on the success this team has already achieved with sales to some of South Africa's largest banks and financial services institutions, such as Santam and First National Bank. |
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Van Heerden is an accomplished management consultant and successful entrepreneur with 12 years experience in a wide variety of large-scale strategic business transformation consulting programs, general management and operations. Previously, van Heerden held the position of senior manager with Accenture and The Berkeley Partnership. He also founded a successful private healthcare company in the UK. |
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Management Team
