Leonida is the founder of Intelipro, an African company that builds data platforms for financial and retail institutions. Intelipro aims to make data more accessible and useful to businesses. 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 data-driven applications. 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 Business School in Madrid, Spain. She was privileged to be named one of Forbes Africa 's Top 30 under 30 in 2018.