Board Director of Specific Tools Ethiopia
Addis has become a household name in Africa’s entrepreneurship landscape with Ethiopia as the genesis of his successful business career. He is the Board of Director at Specific Tools & Techniques. He is also the founder and CEO of the renowned 251 Communications, and a co-founder of KANA TV and Arada Mobile. He is a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and previously served as Chief of Party of the VEGA Ethiopia AGOA+ project under USAID. Addis is an investor of over 13 companies, involved in diverse sectors under his own holding entity named Kazana Group. He is also a co-founder of the Addis Ababa Angel Network, and an advisor to the Ethiopian government on start-up policy. Addis serves on the board of the African Leadership Network, Dangote Ethiopia, the Ethiopian American Business Forum, and the ICT-ET (a private sector ICT association in Ethiopia).