Patrick Ayota

Patrick Michael Ayota is a Ugandan accountant and business administrator. He is the Deputy Managing Director of the National Social Security Fund of Uganda, effective 29 October 2017.

Effective 2016, he sits on the board of directors of the New Vision Group, as a non-executive director. He also sits on the board of Housing Finance Bank, Uganda's mortgage lender, where NSSF Uganda has 50 percent shareholding, also as a non-executive director.

In 2010 Ayota left Barclays Bank and was hired by the National Social Security Fund of Uganda (NSSF Uganda), as the Chief Finance Officer. In a search for new top management at NSSF Uganda, in June 2014, Ayota scored the highest marks for Deputy Managing Director. However, with the intervention of president Yoweri Museveni, a different top team was hired and Ayota remained Head of Finance at the institution.

Following his graduate studies, he took up residence in the Atlanta, Georgia area in the United States. He was employed at its Atlanta offices, by the Reznick Group, which today is CohnReznick, a large international accounting firm. In 2007, Ayota returned to Uganda and took up employment as the Head of Finance at Barclays Bank of Uganda.

During his stay in the United States, Patrick Ayota was an active member of the Ugandan community in North America, serving as Chief Financial Officer of the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA), from 2001 until 2002, and as the Chairman of the UNAA Electoral Commission in 2005.