Zakaria Hersi is a Swedish-Somali citizen, best known for his role in the development and propagation of Truecaller in Africa and Middle East.
[7] Hersi spent 2015-2016 in Kenya, where he led and later sold a successful high-tech startup.
[7] Digital Sweden has profiled his efforts to help other Swedish citizens from refugee backgrounds enter the fields of computers and technology.
[6] He founded a tech company, in Kenya, that employed 150 people within its first half year.
More recently he has served as the African director of TrueCaller, which signed up its one millionth paid subscriber in 2019.