Pieter de Villiers
FounderFounder at Clickatell
Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
FoundedClickatell
About
Pieter de Villiers is a South African entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Clickatell, Inc., a global provider of application-to-person mobile messaging and mobile transactional services serving Fortune 500 companies and more than 13,000 smaller businesses across 224 countries and territories. He has over 21 years of experience in telecoms, mobile messaging, and mobile payments, and grew Clickatell into a profitable business with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital. He founded the SiMODiSA initiative to support South African startups in 2013 and serves as a board member at Endeavor South Africa.
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Pieter Wouter de VilliersExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- Endeavor South AfricaBoard Membercurrent2025 — presentStellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
- ClickatellCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2000 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- SiMODiSA AssociationChairman Of The Boardcurrent2013 — presentSouth Africa & USA
- The Collective XBoard Membercurrent2023 — presentSouth Africa
- Stellenbosch UniversityFaculty of Science Advisory Boardcurrent2019 — present
- EndeavorMembercurrent2018 — presentUnited States
- Sequoia CapitalPortfolio Company CEO2006 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- The SABLE AcceleratorBusiness Mentor2012 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Founder CollectivePortfolio Company - Member2006 — 2017
- Absolute EPartner1999 — 2000
- MicrologixProduct Marketing1998 — 1999
Skills & more
Telecommunications26SMS8Mobile Banking6Wireless11Messaging6Mobile Communications10Product Management11Start-ups72Payments3Product Development6Online Marketing3Business Strategy30
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E-commerceNew Business DevelopmentMobile PaymentsVASProduct MarketingMarketing StrategyMobile MarketingMobile CommerceNegotiationStrategic PlanningStrategy DevelopmentTeam ManagementLanguages Afrikaans · English
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- Who is Pieter de Villiers?
- Pieter de Villiers is a South African entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Clickatell, Inc., a global provider of application-to-person mobile messaging and mobile transactional services serving Fortune 500 companies and more than 13,000 smaller businesses across 224 countries and territories. He has over 21 years of experience in telecoms, mobile messaging, and mobile payments, and grew Clickatell into a profitable business with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital. He founded the SiMODiSA initiative to support South African startups in 2013 and serves as a board member at Endeavor South Africa.
- Where does Pieter de Villiers work?
- Pieter de Villiers is Founder of Clickatell.
- What companies did Pieter de Villiers found?
- Pieter de Villiers founded Clickatell.
- Where did Pieter de Villiers go to school?
- Pieter de Villiers studied at London Business School (Executive Leadership, Scaling your Business Programme); University of Johannesburg (Bachelor of Science - BS, Optometry).
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