{"id":33649,"date":"2026-06-14T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/didier-drogba-sayyu-dantata-richard-bielle-the-eclectic-network-of-vivo-energy-ceo-stan-mittelman\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:14:23","slug":"didier-drogba-sayyu-dantata-richard-bielle-the-eclectic-network-of-vivo-energy-ceo-stan-mittelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/didier-drogba-sayyu-dantata-richard-bielle-the-eclectic-network-of-vivo-energy-ceo-stan-mittelman\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Drogba, Sayyu Dantata, Richard Bielle\u2026 The eclectic network of Vivo Energy CEO Stan Mittelman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article__header\">\n            <\/header>\n<div class=\"article__content b-lg content-rte\">\n<p class=\"article-excerpt c3 mb-24\">\n    At the helm of the pan-African fuel distribution giant, the French executive \u2013 who previously worked at TotalEnergies \u2013 has a talent for surrounding himself with leading figures across the continent.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta border-b border-grey-100 pb-16 -first:mt-24 -last:mb-24\">\n<div class=\"article-meta__body flex items-center justify-between gap-16\">\n<p>\n            Published<br \/>\n            <span data-day=\"20260614\">on June 14, 2026<\/span><br \/>\n                            at<br \/>\n                08:00 am (GMT +1)\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Under Stan Mittelman\u2019s leadership, the petroleum distributor Vivo Energy, founded in 2011 by Vitol and Helios through the acquisition of Shell\u2019s African assets, has adopted a more aggressive posture on the continent. A former senior vice-president for Africa at TotalEnergies Marketing &amp; Services, the Frenchman has been the architect of the group\u2019s scaling-up since taking the helm in March 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the helm of the pan-African fuel distribution giant, the French executive \u2013 who previously worked at TotalEnergies \u2013 has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/prod.cdn-medias.theafricareport.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/q=auto,f=auto,metadata=none,width=1800,height=1200,fit=cover\/https:\/\/prod.cdn-medias.theafricareport.com\/medias\/2026\/06\/05\/gr_mittelman_0.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}