Mountaga Keita

Mountaga Keita is a Guinean born inventor, Founder and CEO of Tulip Industries since 2017. He has revolutionized lately the African high-tech industry by innovating a world-class and multiple Award-winning interactive green kiosks, which target public and private sectors, Government, Education, health and security segments.

He was a laureate of the 2017 Guinean Digital Week, recognized in Rwanda by the African Innovations Summit (AIS 2017) as one the 50 Best innovations in Africa for 2018. In late 2018 he received from the African Intellectual Property Organization’s the prestigious World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO’ Gold Medal for the contribution of his innovations to his country socioeconomic development. And Recently he received three distinguished Awards at the Geneva International Inventions Expo (47eme Salon International de Genève): The French Inventors Association Gold Medal, the European Inventors Association Award, and the Geneva Expo Gold Medal in the technology category.

Before 2014, Mountaga Keita was a US banker and international project manager based in Washington DC. He has more than 10 years of experience in advising investors concerning investment-related matters. For many years, he was a senior Personal Banker at Bank of America Corp. in the State of Maryland and Manager at SunTrust Bank Inc. in Washington DC. Mr. Keita has represented numerous high net worth investors and government officials in international investment & trade matters ranging from strategic consulting, financing and the management of legal risks to the negotiation of investment project agreements. Mr. Keita was educated in the U.S, holding two graduate degrees – Master of Science in Contract Management & Procurement, Master of Business Administration and Diploma in Negotiation at Harvard Law School- with much of his work involving Manufacturing, Technology Research and Development, Artificial Intelligence and management.