Dietlof Mare is one of South Africa’s most successful telecommunications executives, having served as CEO of Vodacom DRC, Vodacom Tanzania, Vodafone Albania, and now Vumatel CEO.
Mare quickly rose through the ranks at Vodacom and was offered the CEO position at Vodacom DRC in 2004.After a short stint as Vodacom’s managing executive of its strategy programme office, he moved to Vodafone Albania, serving as CEO from March 2012 to April 2018. “I considered this an exciting opportunity because the two founders were visionaries eager to grow the business, and I believed I could help them achieve their goal.”
Going into countries like the DRC and, later, Tanzania as a young person was also entirely new for him.