Elijah Kitaka’s 5 +1 leadership lessons to tech executives and techpreneurs In Uganda’s tech space, Elijah Kitaka’s name needs no much introduction. The maverick tech executive and musicpreneur has put his Midas touch on many a brand such as Barclays Bank Uganda (now Absa Bank Uganda), and Global Trust Bank where he was Head of Technology, before moving on to Google as the Programme Manager for nearly 5 years. From Google, he was in January 2017 headhunted by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to lead the fund's technology agenda. After spearheading NSSF’s tech-lead transformation, he has for the last two years been the Chief Information Officer and Head of Engineering at Stanbic Bank, Uganda's largest Bank. In between that, he has also tried his hand at techpreneurship. He built and runs, Fezah, a pay-per-view platform and talent agency in the entertainment industry, as well as Songboost, a data infrastructure startup that brings real-time analytics to radio and TV. Songboost helps, musicians, managers, and labels to track music airplay across Africa with data from over 300 radio and TV stations in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia and therefore be able to commercialise their work via until recently elusive offline royalties.