Listen While You Play
Msuega Tese is a co-founder and Executive Director of Integrated Solutions Angola Lda (ISA). Under Tese’s leadership, ISA has become the brand leading enterprise customers in Angola turn to for high-end professional IT services. While Tese owes his expertise to his education and decades of experience, his journey to leadership began at a very young age.
Born in a rural community in central Nigeria, Tese endeavored to absorb the wisdom of his village elders. He would follow his father’s advice: “listen while you play.” While they played quietly nearby, his father insisted that the children listened as the adults debated important community affairs. Though it was no simple task to decipher the parables in which these elders often spoke, being vigilant has become Tese’s way of life.
Tese went on to study at the University of Port Harcourt, where he earned an honors degree in electrical engineering. After graduation, Tese was posted to Sokoto state for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). His primary assignment was Government Secondary School Kamba (present Kebbi state) where he taught Introductory Technology and Physics for a year. During this period, Tese discovered his Christian faith—something he holds as a cornerstone of his identity today.
At the beginning of his career, Tese worked in information technology (IT) sector for three years. After that, he worked for ten years for Schlumberger, an oil and gas services multinational. Then, in 2005, Tese co-founded Integrated Solutions Angola (ISA). Today, ISA is one of Angola’s most respected IT companies. With customers from all sectors, it has an unparalleled track record in designing and implementing high-end technology solutions. In addition, the clients took note of ISA’s unique training methodology that fastracks its new personnel to high competence in a few months. This enables ISA to provide world-class professional IT services to its growing client base in a consistent manner.