MEET THE GEEKS

Chok Ooi, Co-Founder & Chief Geek, senior partner, agility.io

Chok is Co-Founder and Chief Geek at 42Geeks, a fun organization with a mission to foster cross-border tech collaborations & investments, forge kinship and bring happiness through the global Geeks Tour.

Chok is also the Co-Founder and Senior Partner at Agility.io, a global product design and software development company that works with 300+ startups and Fortune 500 companies to design and build game-changing technology and solutions. Over the past 11 years, we helped build over 6 unicorns and counting.

Chok was Co-Founder and CEO of Kenzie Academy, an online tech and coding school headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. Kenzie was one of the leading pioneers in the Income Share Agreement (ISA) space and raised over $100M to finance ISAs and provide accessible tech training to thousands of learners, especially those from under-served communities. Kenzie alumni now work as software engineers at firms such as Dropbox, Microsoft, McKinsey, and many other top tech companies. Kenzie was acquired by Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) in March 2021.

Prior to Agility.io and Kenzie, Chok was CTO at SF-based Azap Mobile, Senior Software Engineer at Loopt (Acquired by GreenDot), and Lead Engineer at Selerity (Acquired by Dealogic). In a prior life, Chok also worked at Lab49, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, where he built or led teams to build large scale trading and risk management systems.

Chok also sat on the board of Brazilian superapp startup James (Acquired by GPA) and is currently a board member at EdTech startup Concourse.