Position: Marketing Manager
Category: Marketing
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 4


Ruth Desta, a highly motivated professional with a background in Business Finance and Marketing, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has cultivated strong expertise in capital optimization, financial planning, marketing strategy, advertising, and consumer behavior. She worked for Massachusetts State representative Marjorie C. Decker as a legislative assistant intern throughout college. Ruth has interned at Abraaj Capital as an incoming private equity analyst where she analyzed investment teasers by calculating net profit margin, revenue CAGR and used other financial measures to estimate the value of the company. She has also worked at the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she surveyed demographic and patient visit data to develop patient and revenue growth opportunities for a medical practice within the Partners Healthcare system. Ruth has had great success organizing domestic events for high-net-worth individuals as well as leveraging social media advertising, video marketing and email campaigns to increase sales conversions while working at The ‘Quin house. Currently residing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ruth is actively working towards publishing her first book about Ethiopian history.