Speaker Bio
YONAS MARU - FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR, BCS GROUP
Yonas Maru is the Founder and Managing Director of BCS Group, a leading Pan-African telecom infrastructure company. With a diverse professional background spanning private equity, investment banking, management consulting, software engineering, and systems, Yonas brings a wealth of expertise to the industry.
Before establishing BCS Group, he worked at Kingdom Zephyr Management, where he played a key role in debt securitization transactions, including leading efforts on a $200 million debt securitization deal. Prior to that, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising multinational corporations in telecommunications and IT.
Yonas holds an MBA from Columbia University and an MSc in Civil Engineering from Cornell University. His strategic leadership has been instrumental in driving BCS Group’s expansion across Africa, delivering innovative connectivity solutions and strengthening the region’s digital infrastructure.