Job Title: group chief finance and investments officer
Company: ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company)
Tewodros Sisay is the group chief finance and investments officer of ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company), a position he assumed in November 2026.
He joined from Deloitte, where he spent nearly thirteen years and was most recently a partner serving as East Africa M&A leader and Africa Economics Advisory Leader.
Tewodros began his career as a freelance financial analyst in Addis Ababa before joining HST & Co as an audit senior in March 2009. In August 2010 he moved to Ex Africa, an international financial services company, as an associate. In 2011 he co-founded Enlion Consulting, a corporate finance advisory firm operating across Addis Ababa, Tel Aviv and London, which he led as managing director for nearly three years before joining Deloitte as a principal consultant in Ethiopia in April 2014.
Tewodros holds a BA in economics from Mekelle University and an MSc in finance from the University of London. He is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).
Work
Nov 2026 – Present: group chief finance and investments officer, ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company)
Jun 2025 – Oct 2026: East Africa M&A leader, Deloitte
Jun 2023 – Oct 2026: Africa economics advisory leader, Deloitte
Jun 2023 – Jun 2025: East Africa corporate finance leader, Deloitte
Jan 2020 – Jun 2023: associate director, financial advisory, Deloitte
Sep 2015 – Dec 2019: senior manager, financial advisory, Deloitte
Apr 2014 – Aug 2015: principal consultant, corporate finance, Deloitte Ethiopia
Aug 2011 – May 2014: co-founder and managing director, Enlion Consulting
Aug 2010 – Nov 2011: associate, Ex Africa
Mar 2009 – Jul 2010: audit senior, HST & Co
Dec 2007 – Feb 2009: freelance financial analyst
Education
Dec 2021 – Sep 2022: MSc (Finance), University of London
2003 – 2006: BA (Economics), Mekelle University
2006 – 2008: FCCA, ACCA
ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company)
ZEP-RE (PTA Reinsurance Company) is a regional reinsurance company established in 1992 under the Treaty of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Headquartered in Nairobi, it provides reinsurance services across life, non-life and agriculture lines to insurance companies in its member states, which span Eastern and Southern Africa. It is owned by COMESA member states, the African Development Bank and other regional development finance institutions.
