Clickatell – Deputy CISO
Casper de Villiers is the Deputy CISO at Clickatell.
After completing his studies in Retail Business Management at the Cape University of Technology in 1994, Casper focused on skills development among youths and in the corporate sector. With charisma as natural impetus, the following five years provided Casper with a strong foundation for entrepreneurship and leadership.
In 2000 Casper became a co-founder of Clickatell, a global mobile messaging entity pioneering corporate short message services (SMS) within the online realm. Casper was initially responsible for all financial and operations duties, but soon moved to core operations management. In more recent years, Casper started focusing on compliance and governance management.
Casper fulfilled roles of Chairman, Deputy-Chair, Treasurer and Chair of finance working group during his years of involvement with WASPA. His official WASPA duties will focus on clarifying/defining financial processes and maintaining sound financial protocol. His personal goals are to revise the financial processes and controls and to focus on improvement of compliance and governance within the Finance realm.