Leadership & Team
SPX’s leadership team combines experience from the private sector, development work, innovation, and hands-on operations.
Cross-Sector Leadership
SPX’s founder has established and led business across various industries including ecotourism, media, agribusiness, and digital technologies. This mix of experience gives SPX a unique understanding of Ethiopia’s markets, regulatory environment, and institutions, strengthening the firm’s ability to design feasible and scalable interventions.
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International Expertise
SPX’s senior team brings experience in large scale agricultural operations across Asia and Africa including mechanized farming, biomass energy production and renewable energy systems. This depth of knowledge informs SPX’s work across agriculture, energy, and rural economic development.
Collective Technical Capability
The team at SPX has deep expertise in market systems development, clean energy, agricultural transformation, digital platform development, public-private coordination and applied research. This collective expertise gives the firm the ability to work effectively from policy-level advisory to field-level implementation.
Applied research & sector analysis
Market systems & value-chain development
Clean energy & productive-use technologies
Agronomy & agricultural advisory
Digital platform design & deployment
Monitoring, evaluation & learning
Circular economy & applied science innovations
Community engagement & field coordination
Enterprise development & incubation
Innovation, Science & Digital Specialists
Through the Spiral Innovation Club, SPX brings capabilities in applied microbiology, waste-to-value technologies, digital agricultural tools, innovation management, prototyping, and startup incubation—translating scientific and digital ideas into scalable development solutions.
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Field Coordinators
SPX’s field team works closely with farmers, cooperatives, youth groups, micro-enterprises, and local institutions—ensuring that programs are grounded in community realities and implemented with sensitivity and practicality.
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