Yilebes Addis

Yilebes Addis is Chief Executive Officer of EthSwitch -the National Switch of Ethiopia; Creating Interoperability for Digital Finance and Payments. Mr. Yilebes has M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from AAU. He has over 20 years’ experience in FinTech, Banking and ICT. Prior joining EthSwitch, Yilebes was Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Kifiya Financial Technology P.L.C. Mr. Yilebes provided leadership for the continual development of innovative, robust and secured platforms. As CTO, he was responsible for high availability of platforms, development of high-standard software, Implementation & management IT infrastructure, and maintaining security of IT. Yilebes has also served CBE (largest commercial bank in Ethiopia with >70% market share) as Manager-ICT Project Training & Rollout, where he led training & roll out of T24 Core Banking System. Yilebes has held various managerial and technical positions in CBE. He has also worked as Lecturer and Trainer in AAU, HiLCoE, Unity University, MicroLink, and CPU.