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Abel Tesfaye
Managing Director
Twenty years across telecom infrastructure delivery in Ethiopia and East Africa. Founded Zion Engineering to build a domestic firm capable of standing alongside the global vendors.
Leadership & editorial
The people who sign off our work.
Zion Engineering's leadership and editorial team blend decades of telecom engineering, ICT delivery and policy experience — committed to publishing accurate, practitioner-grade content for Ethiopia's digital sector.
Senior team
A bench of deep experience.
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Hanna Mekonnen
Chief Operating Officer
Programme leadership across multi-site rollouts, with a background in civil-engineering project controls and HSE governance.
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Dawit Girma
Head of Networks & Platforms
Career platform engineer — RAN, transport and VAS — with deep experience integrating tier-1 vendor stacks for African operators.
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Meron Ayele
Head of Cloud & Software
Leads the cloud, data and custom-software practice. Architect of multi-tenant platforms running at national scale.
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Yonas Kebede
Head of Field Operations
Runs the nationwide field force — civil works, fiber crews, and 24/7 maintenance — to documented HSE and quality standards.
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Rahel Bekele
Head of Editorial & Insights
Former technology journalist; oversees Zion Engineering's editorial standards, glossary and practitioner publications.
Editorial standards
Written by practitioners.
Every Insights article is authored or reviewed by a named member of the Zion Engineering team. Read our editorial standards to see how we research, fact-check and disclose.