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Hannes Van Rensburg

Hannes Van Rensburg

Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
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Career History Hannes van Rensburg is a veteran of the mobile industry and trained nuclear scientist. He is best known as the founder of Fundamo, the leading supplier of mobile banking and payment solutions, acquired by Visa Inc. in June 2011. After serving as SVP at Visa for a number of years, he joined ACI Worldwide as SVP in 2016 to develop new initiatives in the payments industry, primarily focused on the US market. He has been voted as one of the top hundred most influential people in telecommunication three years in a row. He has also been given a lifetime achievement award by the Mobile Entertainment Forum for his work in growing the mobile payment industry globally.

Blogs

Frictionless Payments

Contextual commerce powered by in-chat payments will transform retail

06 Jun 2022

Smart omni-channel strategies have elevated how brands engage with their customers. Taking the next step, contextual commerce allows brands to create purchasing opportunities throughout the customer journey and at every stage from purchase to delivery, revolutionizing how brands and customers connect, interact, and transact converting mobile momen...

Frictionless Payments

Contextual commerce powered by in-chat payments will transform retail

25 May 2022

Smart omni-channel strategies have elevated how brands engage with their customers. Taking the next step, contextual commerce allows brands to create purchasing opportunities throughout the customer journey and at every stage from purchase to delivery, revolutionizing how brands and customers connect, interact, and transact converting mobile momen...

 

Why WhatsApp’s NFL ad campaign should be taken seriously

11 Feb 2022

When a company chooses the AFC Championship Game to make a big expansion play, you know they mean business. Football fans would have seen WhatsApp's ad comparing sending an SMS with having their mail opened and read by their postman. For US businesses, WhatsApp’s big push to capture more of the domestic market should light a fire under decision ma...

Asia Financial Services

When will WeChat for the Free World Emerge

02 Sep 2020

On the face of it, WeChat is just like any other chat platform. You download the WeChat app onto your mobile phone, register to use the service, and chat with any other subscriber of the service, just like Messenger, WhatsApp, or Telegram. Like other chat apps you can also share files and photos. However, that is where the similarity ends. By regi...