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★ imed+KT Group is a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to helping individuals and organizations unlock their full potential through productivity, financial, business, and life coaching. Our approach is rooted in resilience, purpose, and continuous growth, and our mission is to empower clients to achieve lasting success.★ As the CEO, I lead a team that provides services such as Productivity Coaching, Financial Coaching, Business Strategy, and Life Coaching for Personal Development. Together, we craft and deliver customized strategies that empower our clients to overcome challenges, optimize their performance, and create lasting impact in their personal and professional lives.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

★ Built a non-profit organization (envisioned by the President of Ethiopia and sponsored by Honeywell & Coca-Cola) and managed all strategic planning, partnership building, and program delivery to train Ethiopian high school girls in STEM, coding, and robotics. ★ Developed and delivered training programs for 1.5K high school girls (including 40 orphans studying at the elementary level) from low-income backgrounds in Ethiopia, in addition to training and upskilling 50 high school teachers through train-the-trainer programs.

★ The UNASDG implements development programs in the fields of sports, education, culture, and health in collaborating states within the framework of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (with 169 targets) adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015. It monitors and coordinates project delivery in accordance with their affiliated investment committee and based on the guidelines of UNASDG Security Council.★ As UNASDG Special Ambassador and Director of the Financial Action Task Force, I conduct operational and financial monitoring and provide advisory technical expertise to countries’ governments and leaders for programs that achieve one or more of the 169 targets listed under the 17 UN SDGs, in line with the UN’s Agenda 2030.

London, Gb

★ Drove strategic planning, partnership building, regulatory engagement, and local team building for the leading sports and digital entertainment company across Africa, expanding operations in Ethiopia to 50 stores and 150 employees in 2.5 years.

Purchase, Ny, Us

★ Delivered strategic guidance and thought leadership to the government of Ethiopia to facilitate the modernization of the country’s payment ecosystem, including promoting the use of the e-government services portal to digitize payment flows.

Littleton, Co, Us

The World Food Bank is an institutional investment entity created to bring market-based efficiencies to the world’s food trade market.★ Strategy: Currently working on an asset-backed and blockchain-supported digital currency for initial introduction into emerging markets in Africa with Strong commodity price volatility. It is backed mainly by actual food commodities held in a repository with the World Food Bank. Its value is based on a regional commodity index representing a weighted basket of the most commonly traded grains and pulses.

Trade Centre First, Dubai, Ae

54 Capital, the largest Private Equity Company in Ethiopia, is an Africa-focused asset manager investing in and managing proprietary deals across the continent. ★ Strategy: Advise the Board and the Executive Chairman on the local business landscape in Ethiopia, provide solutions to issues faced by the company and assist in implementing the company’s strategy.

★ Advised the highest levels of government on formulating a new technical vision and approach supporting the country’s strategic development goals, covering investment strategy/fundraising, resource mobilization, and private sector project implementation.

★ Established a long-term strategic vision, data-driven goals/KPIs, comprehensive business development roadmaps, and competitive marketing strategies to foster the growth of Ethiopia’s tourism industry (with responsibility for $3.5B in national tourism revenues). ★ Collaborated with the World Bank on developing a Tourism Joint Plan that established tourism as a top government priority, supported by an integrated marketing plan that focused on 8 key destinations and associated tourism products/services.★ Utilized best-in-class technologies to add new capabilities (such as “smart” destination planning) and drive operational efficiencies across tourism products, promotions, and business development strategies.

Boston, Ma, Us

★ Taught an elective “immersive field course” offered as part of the Harvard MBA curriculum, involving ~40 MBA students who travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on private-public partnership opportunities in Africa.

Boston, Ma, Us

★ Provided strategic direction and operational leadership to drive a rapid expansion of GE’s operations in Ethiopia from 1 to 8 business units in close collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including customers, business partners, and government authorities.★ Built a robust, streamlined operational framework and technology infrastructure that supported product, brand, and business development initiatives while reducing costs and streamlining headcount.

Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Et

As a Founding Member and Chairman of the Board at the American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia, I played a pivotal role in reinforcing the longstanding economic and friendship ties between Ethiopia and the United States. Our mission focused on empowering the business community to enhance trade and investment relations, share experiences, support capacity building within Ethiopia, and promote foreign direct investment, driving economic collaboration and growth.

Seattle, Wa, Us

★ Strategized and executed a comprehensive transformation of the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), involving organizational restructuring, operational optimization, and new technology capabilities to promote investment in Ethiopia. ★ Partnered with the Director-General of the EIC and key government ministers to define priority sectors for investment and devise investment promotion strategies that focused on expanding private sector involvement.★ Developed a robust central plan that enabled efficient coordination of investment promotion initiatives across 11 regional government agencies and donor partners, in addition to leading a redesign of the EIC website in line with international standards.

Seattle, Wa, Us

★ Drove investment strategy and private sector partnerships to grow the local agriculture sector and enhance food security through various measures that included expanding land under irrigation, strengthening markets, and increasing farm productivity. ★ Cultivated and maintained a network of national/multinational investment partners, including collaboratively identifying agricultural investment opportunities and facilitating deals worth $100M+ with key government ministries.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

★ Played a key leadership role in building business intelligence capabilities to help identify growth opportunities and maximize the productivity of 15K+ financial advisors (with direct reporting responsibility to the President of the Business Development Group). ★ Oversaw strategy planning and execution, solutions innovation, process improvement, and team building/training initiatives to develop the new business intelligence infrastructure. ★ Led the development of cutting-edge, first-to-the-industry business intelligence solutions that drove greater efficiencies in client segmentation and analysis, thereby facilitating greater client penetration and share of wallet.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

★ Spearheaded the design and implementation of predictive models and best-in-class data analytics capabilities that fostered greater alignment between corporate strategies, objectives, and performance.★ Executed integrated plans/programs (including deferred compensation plans for 12K+ advisors) to build alignment between corporate goals and program performance across business channels and regions, resulting in 25% branch revenue growth over 3 years.★ Conducted detailed analysis of the HDvest division’s strategic fit using business intelligence tools/systems and recommended the sale of the division to senior management, resulting in a successful deal worth $100M.★ Featured for award-winning work with Big Brothers Big Sisters (2010) • St. Louis Times★ Featured in article “Homeless to Humanitarian” (2009) • Diversity Inc. Magazine

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

★ Facilitated the seamless end-to-end execution of 15 firm-wide initiatives by providing strategy planning, implementation, and problem-solving expertise to 8K+ advisors. ★ Supported the acquisitions of A.G. Edwards and Wachovia by steering leadership and employee groups through a target optimization model that analyzed operational gaps and resource constraints to determine an optimal investment and integration strategy. ★ Identified $23.7B in potential new IRA assets from in-depth analysis of internal and external data, resulting in the generation of 56.8K new IRA accounts.

New York, Ny, Us

★ Turned around an underperforming region by redeveloping and optimizing the training function, including launching a new advisor training program across 80 branch locations and redesigning the trainee reporting platform.

New York, Ny, Us

★ Managed all advisor activities in the Client Advisory Center to drive new revenue opportunities and minimize risk exposure, with responsibility for $60B in assets, $50M in revenues, and 80 employees.

New York, Ny, Us

★ Managed high net worth client contacts and activities. Regularly researched a wide variety of investment products and identified client growth opportunities. ★ Business Development: Recognized for outstanding client interaction. Achieved #2 ranking out of 450 new Advisors by the end of the first year and consistently in the top 10% of peer financial advisors. Awarded the “Wealth Advisors” Designation by the second year, a recognition only given to top Advisors

Securities Industry Institue(Sponsored By Sifma), Investment And Securities

Certificate Of International Finance And Global Markets

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Bs, Finance