Menghis Samuel is owner and managing director of Ewan Technology Solutions, Inc. in Eritrea. A veteran of Eritrea's armed struggle for independence, he has lived in the United States and worked as a former project manager at AT&T. He is chairman of the board of the Eritrean National Chamber of Commerce. As a poet and translator, his most recent work includes the co-translation of Gfi Gezati Ethiopia ab Ertra (Atrocities by Ethiopian Rulers in Eritrea).