About · The Principal
About the practice
Enderassey is a one-person practice. What you are evaluating is a single professional record, and it is set out here so that it can be checked.
en·de·ra·sé (Amharic): “as myself.” The person you trust to act on your behalf, with full authority and full accountability. In Ethiopian tradition, an enderassey does not merely represent you; he stands in your place and answers for the outcome. That is the standard this practice is named for, and held to.
The principal
Wondwossen Mezlekia, CFE
Founder & Principal Consultant
Wondwossen spent 17 years inside the operations he now examines, working at transaction level before he worked on frameworks.
Sixteen of those years were at Symetra Life Insurance. He managed the life claims unit, where fraudulent claims arrive as individual files to be adjudicated. He owned SOX-compliant control processes as a process owner. He served as a project manager and systems analyst inside the same operations, which informs how he designs controls that have to run inside existing platforms. And he built the company's operational risk management and fraud prevention programs from the ground up.
He then spent a year as VP, Data Risk Management at MUFG Union Bank through the U.S. Bank acquisition, one of the largest bank integrations in recent U.S. history, performing independent review and challenge across seven enterprise GRC system conversions.
As one of ten members of the LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council, he helped advance FraudShare, the industry's fraud intelligence platform, from a promising idea to the standard adopted across life and retirement services.
Outside the practice, Wondwossen publishes independent research on agricultural commodity trade and market transparency, including a working paper on SSRN. His research site is coffeemonitor.com.
Credentials
How to verify them
Certification
Verifiable
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Status can be confirmed directly through the ACFE. Formal verification of employment history is provided on request to organizations evaluating an engagement.
Platforms
Practitioner experience
RSA Archer, IBM OpenPages, and ServiceNow, used as a practitioner inside live risk programs and through enterprise conversions. Enderassey holds no vendor partnerships and takes no referral fees.
Education
Foundation
B.Sc., Agricultural Economics, Alemaya University. Ongoing professional education in procurement and supply chain management and in AI operations and governance.
How the practice works
What every engagement includes
The principal does the work. No leverage model, no junior staff learning on your engagement. The person you meet in the first conversation is the person who performs the assessment and signs the findings.
Fixed scope and fixed fee. Every engagement is scoped and priced in writing before work begins. If the scope changes, the fee conversation happens before the work does.
Confidentiality. How client information is handled, retained, and protected is documented in plain language at Privacy & Terms.
Next step
Start with a conversation
About thirty minutes, confidential, and carrying no obligation.