ZELEALEM ESHETU

Zelealem Eshetu is a private, family owned green Ethiopian coffee export company. Brought up in a region that was among the leading coffee growers in the nation and where coffee was an integral part of the culture, for founder and CEO, Zelealem Eshetu, a love for coffee goes back to his roots. From early age he felt a deep connection to the plantation that surrounded him and was particularly fascinated with coffee. This primal curiosity was communicated through the endless questions he directed towards his father. Mr. Eshetu, himself a grower of coffee beans, shared with his son the indigenous knowledge he had accumulated through his years of experience in coffee production. As he came of age, Zelealem decided to ally this knowledge with a scientific approach, pouring over books on coffee science in his college years. And 1998, combining this skillset with his entrepreneurial instinct, he went on to start his first coffee business, supplying fine coffee to the central coffee auction..

Also known as: zelealem eshetu coffee