Optasia
Bewket Taffere is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in telecommunications and financial services. Currently serving as General Manager at Optasia since January 2024, Bewket previously held the same position at Raxio Data Centres from January 2022 to January 2024. Prior to that, Bewket was Chief Operations Officer at ebirr mobile financial services from January 2018 to February 2021, and Sales Director at CIT communication plc between July 2013 and December 2017. Bewket's career began at ethio telecom, where responsibilities included product and service management from April 2003 to June 2013. Bewket holds a Telecom MBA from the Graduate School of Telecommunication and Information Technology.
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Optasia
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We deliver Optasia, the AI Platform enabling financial access for the next billion customers. Α versatile, data-driven B2B2X (business-to-business-to-customers and SMEs) financial technology platform for MNOs, mobile wallet operators and financial institutions, which provides them with accurate credit scoring for responsible financing decision-making. We support intelligent credit decisions, enable a broad range of financial services development and drive successful business models. All with ease, through our AI-led fully-automated decisioning algorithm, which allows us to efficiently make millions of decisions on financing, based on sophisticated data analysis. Thanks to our technology and network we provide powerful flywheel effects with repeatable and scalable growth levers, to help our partners grow and enable financial access to retail & SME customers across numerous markets. Operating since 2012 as Channel VAS and expanded in more than 30 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and LATAM with focus in emerging markets, Optasia Enabling credit decisions for an average of 88 million customers a month and had more than 560 million addressible subscribers in 2021, continuing to expand to new markets globally. Optasia has been chosen as an investment opportunity by top firms such as Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital in 2017, and Ethos, a leading South African investment company in late 2018. The company also obtained ISO 27001 Certification in late 2021. Founded as Channel VAS in 2012, we became Optasia in 2022, incorporating a brand identity that more broadly reflects our capabilities.