Executive Committee

Chief Executive Officer
Pieter holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stellenbosch Business School. Pieter was appointed CEO of Vodacom Group with effect from 1 October 2008. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Pieter served as the chief operating officer for Vodacom Group from April 2004 until his appointment as CEO. He also served as managing director of Vodacom SA from December 2001 until March 2005. Pieter joined Vodacom Group in 1993 as a member of the initial engineering team. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in April 2004.

Managing Director Vodacom SA
Shameel holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science (Honours) from the University of South Africa and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also an Associated General Accountant and Commercial and Financial Accountant (South Africa). Shameel joined Vodacom in March 1994 after completing his articles and has held various positions within Vodacom. He was appointed as managing director of Vodacom SA in April 2005. He has served as the managing director of Vodacom service provider company (the service provision and commercial arm of Vodacom) from 2000 to 2005. Shameel was also managing director and founder of Vodacom Equipment Company (Proprietary) Limited, the former handset distribution company in Vodacom from 1998 to 2000. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in September 2000.

Chief Financial Officer
Rob is Chartered Accountant and joined the company as Chief Financial Officer and director of the Vodacom Group on 1 July 2009, taking responsibility for finance, company secretarial, investor relations and business development and strategy.  He has over 17 years senior financial experience and has spent the last 9 years with the Nedbank Group holding various director positions, latterly, most recently as Managing Director of Nedbank Retail. He also served as a member of the Nedbank Group Executive Committee as well as of the Banking Association Operating Board.  He was previously Chief Operating Officer of Computer Configurations Holdings and Head of Investment Banking at Standard Corporate & Merchant Bank.

Chief Officer Corporate Affairs
Robert has spent most of his career in the telecommunications industry, starting with British Telecommunications Plc where he held a number of marketing, purchasing and commercial roles over a 15-year period. From 1994 to 1998 he was purchasing director for Dixons Stores Group, the largest electrical retailer in the United Kingdom, from where he joined Vodafone as the purchasing director for its United Kingdom business. In 2000, he was appointed to the role of Global Handset purchasing director responsible for Vodafone’s handset business across 26 countries. In 2003 he moved to Japan as consumer marketing director (Asia). He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in September 2006 from which he retired on 24 February 2009. Bob also sits on the board of Safaricom in Kenya.

Chief Human Resources Officer
Lungile holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees and a Higher Diploma in Personnel Management.  Lungile has over 20 years experience in human resources management spanning a wide range of industry sectors.  She is a highly sought after speaker at conferences and has contributed to a book entitled “Building Human Capital” published by Knowledge Resources. Prior to joining Vodacom in 2000 as the Chief Human Resources Officer, she worked for Primedia Limited as Group General Manager, Human Resources, Otis (Proprietary) Limited as Human Resources Manager for OTIS SADC Companies, Nedcor Bank Limited as Senior Human Resources Officer and Anglo Alpha as Group Training Officer.

Chief Officer International Business
Willem qualified as a Chartered Accountant of South Africa. He joined Telkom in April 1993 as a member of the team, which established Vodacom as a company. In November 1993 he joined Vodacom as a Financial Manager. He rose up the ranks during his career at Vodacom to the position of Finance Director of Vodacom SA, which he held for four years until July 2000. He also subsequently held a position of Finance Director for Vodacom Service Provider Company and for Vodacom International. He was appointed as Managing Director of Vodacom DRC from September 2002 until March 2004. He then resigned from Vodacom and was appointed as the CEO of VMobile in Nigeria from April 2004, and held a position until July 2006. Willem took a sabbatical from the corporate world for two years and in August 2008 joined Vodacom again as advisor to the CEO and has recently been appointed as Chief Officer International Business.