Aéko Ongodia, CFA is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of XENO, and has over 16 years in the African financial markets. He was formerly a fixed income portfolio manager at NSSF Uganda in charge of U$1.3 billion and head of stress testing and risk modelling at Bank of Uganda. Mr. Ongodia holds an MS in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University as well as an MSc in Mathematical Trading and Finance from Stony Brook’s Cass Business School, and a BSc in Quantitative Economics from Makerere University.