Desta Bayisa (He / Him)

International Consultant, Regional Director, Country Director

Fintech Companies / Financial Inclusion Projects / Financial Service Providers / Development Organisations/ Humanitarian Distributions/ Telco’s/ Digital Energy Suppliers/ Digital Businesses / Digital Transformation Initiatives / Digital Economy

Master's DegreeYOM Institute of Economic Development , Addis Ababa Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Eastern Africa

Summary

A trendsetter with growth mindset and more than twelve years state of the art experience in implementing various technology driven solutions for the adoption and use of digital products. I have extensive hands-on experience and deep technical and managerial expertise in designing, building and driving the adoption of affordable, more accessible, and customer-friendly digital solutions focused on serving the needs of underserved individuals and businesses in Eastern Africa Region. I have worked with technology companies, Private sector, Public stakeholders and Development Partners in Sub Saharan Africa, advising B2B and B2C businesses to plan, implement, scale, and enhance technologies and digital business models that enabled them to efficiently scale services to poorly served populations. I have a demonstrated experiences in leading complex digital transformation projects, and end-to-end delivery of digitally-enabled Fin-tech products that have assisted the growth of Cooperatives, Unions , Micro and small enterprises (MSEs), Micro finance Institutions , Commercial Banks ,Mobile money service providers, Distribution Companies, Humanitarian Organisations and renewable energy suppliers. My experiences with Fintech companies and Financial service providers starts from designing digital strategies at high-level to helping them implement digital products in the last mile. My commercial experience and leadership skills have enabled me to deal with different partners with an ability to engage in strategy discussions at senior management levels in regulatory offices, development partners, Banks, MFI's, Fintechs, Switch Operators, Telecoms, Public and Private service distributors and Strategic investment partners. My business development ability starts from identification of new leads to developing client proposals and signing new business deals. My career is highly inspired by the abundant digitalisation potentials and value propositions, Increasingly enabling me to reimagine everything in life and drive the development/ adoption of innovative digital products that could change a life, organisation, and the world.

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