Celestin Zimulinda

Celestin Zimulinda is the Head of the IT department at Bank of Kigali and is responsible for the bank’s daily IT needs. He joined the Bank in November, 2014. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as Project Manager with Ericsson, Rwanda where he was in charge of network rollout activities. He also worked with Cisco Systems East Africa as a Project Manager in charge of Cisco businesses in Rwanda and Tanzania.Celestin Zimulinda previously worked as a Senior ICT Officer with the Ministry of Infrastructure in Rwanda and following that, as the Assistant Head of ICT Centre. He also worked as an Assistant Lecturer at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology.

Celestin holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology from Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda and a Master’s Degree in IT and Management from Illinois Institute of Technology, United States. He has undergone numerous Telecommunications and IT technical trainings offered by Ericsson, Intel Corp, QUALCOMM, and USTTI. He is a former recipient of the Fulbright Junior Scholarship through the United States Department of State.