Pieter de Villiers is a South African born, Silicon Valley experienced entrepreneur, and angel investor with a passion for Chat Commerce and the empowerment of people. Pieter is also one of the youngest mobile industry veterans with over 21-years’ experience in global telecoms, mobile messaging, and mobile payments backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital. Pieter spent nearly 10 years in San Francisco where he successfully grew Clickatell into a multi-million-dollar company operating across multiple continents. Pieter has been recognized for his leadership and achievement in the mobile industry by many industry organizations including Endeavor and Global Technology Business that named him as one of the “top 40 under 40” executives who will likely “run the telecoms industry in 2020.” Along with his work with Clickatell and the mobile industry, Pieter actively works to promote and empower entrepreneurs in Africa in digital skills training in South Africa serving as chairman of SiMODiSA.org, a public benefit, not-for-profit organization based in South Africa and Africa.

Jeppe Dorff, a native of Denmark, has a wealth of global perspective with a career spanning most continents and many individual mobile payments and mobile banking deployments. Jeppe oversees Clickatell’s global footprint by delivering the company’s Chat Commerce Platform solutions to over 10,000 customers, many of which are Fortune 500 companies and leading global brands activating their own digital commerce transformations. Prior to joining Clickatell, Jeppe served in multiple executive roles including vice president of Transaction Services at Rogers Communications, vice president, Product, Strategy and Innovation with Mobile Money Ventures (a CitiGroup and SK Telecom joint venture), head of product development at EnStream (a Rogers, Bell, and TELUS joint venture). He was also the founder and chief technology officer of Secure Wireless Transfers where he developed the award-winning KushCash platform, one of the first mobile payment deployments in North America.

Zan Chivell is an accomplished HR leader with a career having spanned various roles and portfolios, extending across a range of industries. Most notably she has worked in technology, payments, e-commerce, and retail. Throughout her career, she served on several leadership teams and executive committees of innovative and performing global businesses, with focus on high growth and scaling up. While working in South Africa and London, she managed HR programs at global enterprises expanding into new territories. She has served on various M&A and investment project teams, leading the People agenda. She was HR executive at RCS a division of BNP Paribas in Cape Town, head of talent acquisition at Boden in London, and senior HR manager at The Foschini Group based in Cape Town. Her passion is to create a working environment where top talent wants to be.