Ananiya brings his extensive experience in analytical problem solving and consulting to Forested Foods as the Senior Business Operations Coordinator. Upon graduating with his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University (AAU), he was an Innovation and Intelligence Analyst within the Ethiopian Ministry of Innovation and Technology working on big data. He then joined the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)'s strategic advisory and consulting wing, the Analytics team, that served to design strategies and programmatic solutions that improve the livelihoods of Ethiopia's smallholder farmers. Passionate about project management, Ananiya is currently completing a postgraduate degree in project management from AAU.