Clement Kayitakire

Clement Kayitakire is currently the Ag. Chief Executive Officer at East Africa Exchange (EAX). He provides the overall direction for the company through leadership, general supervision, management and control of the day to day operations of the company. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategic goals and objectives and ensuring that the necessary resources are in place to achieve them.

Prior to that Position, Clement was the company’s Chief Operations Officer. He was overseeing the Company's Business Operations and was ensuring It has Effective Operational and Financial Procedures in place. He also worked as Deputy Country Director and Head of Trading, where he was leading the day to day Trading Activities of the Exchange as well as the Clearing and Settlement of all Commodity Trades. He also was assisting the Country Director as his Deputy in his daily Executive Activities which include structuring and leading EAX teams.

Clement joined the Exchange working as Warehouse Receipt Financing Specialist before he was appointed to the position of Deputy Country Director and Head of Trading. He has over 13 years of experience in Leadership, Operations Management, Commodities Markets, FinTech as well as Securities and Investment.

Clement holds Two Qualifications in Securities and Investment from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), London, UK and a Qualification in FinTech and Regulatory Innovation from the University of Cambridge, UK. He also holds a Certificate on Commodity Futures Markets from the Forward Markets Commission of India, Mumbai, India.

Clement Kayitakire holds an MBA in Agribusiness Management from Kerala Agriculture University (KAU), Kerala, India, where He specialized in Marketing and Finance.