Truecaller appoints Zakaria Hersi as Director of Partnerships in Africa

Zakaria Abdulkadir Hersi has been appointed Truecaller’s Director of Business Development and Partnerships, Africa.

Zakaria will be heading Truecaller’s expansion plans in the region as he is the first in the position since Truecaller just set up its Sub – Saharan Africa office in Nairobi.

“I am very excited for the job and the position that I have been put in. I have been using Truecaller as a very avid user but especially I have known the company and the founders from Sweden and I have seen the type of growth that they have had in India and also the type of visions that they have for Africa. My main focus is integrating ourselves within the ecosystem,” said Hersi.

He started Orten.io, a platform that, through events and immersive workshops and training of talented women and minorities from low-income areas, works to inspire greater inclusiveness and cooperation to support tech entrepreneurship, in 2016 after nine years of entrepreneurial successes.

Zakaria has helped the Swedish investment firm Kinnevik launch Saltside in Nigeria, as well as opening offices in South America for Besedo, and has worked with some of the world’s largest marketplaces (eBay, Match.com, and OLX)

Zakaria Hersi is an award-winning tech entrepreneur and has been recognized in both Sweden and Africa (Nigeria’s 100 most innovative persons in Technology in 2016,The Future Africa Awards 2014)  as a talented innovator.

He is currently a Board Member at Global Village,a non-profit organization in the suburbs of Stockholm. The organization is a platform for community engagement with focus on inclusion, culture, education, democracy and diversity.

Zakaria holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Stockholm University.