Leonida is the founder of Intelipro, an African company that builds platforms for financial institutions and retail organizations. Intelipro aims to make data more accessible and useful to businesses and empower them to develop new financial products, targeted digital marketing strategies and optimised business operations. Leonida is also the project lead at Africa Open Data Network, a community of Africans, and friends of Africa, who believe in the continent’s development agenda and how open data can help make it a reality. She is experienced in data science, designing and leading research projects, and implementing financial technologies. She obtained a Bachelors of Science (Hons) in Actuarial Science from University of Nairobi and a Masters in Business Analytics and Big Data from IE University in Madrid, Spain. She was privileged to be named one of Forbes Africa’s Top 30 under 30 in 2018.