The former banker made a nice professional transition after twenty years in the U.S and France. Nowadays, his tech company positively impacts several sectors like public governance and health in his native country, Guinea. 

Mountaga Keïta (photo) is a Guinean entrepreneur and founder of green kiosks manufacturer Tulip Industries Ltd. The tech company, launched in 2017, creates digital terminals for public and private actors, therefore supporting digitalization efforts. 

For Mountaga, “with digitalization, there is no discrimination whatsoever and payment collected land directly where they are supposed to be.” He initiated the process for the creation of Tulip Industries in 2015 when he returned to his native country, Guinea, after twenty-three years in France and the USA. He finally launched the company in 2017, and, within a few years, it established credibility, won multiple contracts, and developed new products. For instance, it has already launched three terminals for the health sector (for cardiology, thermography, and ultrasound scanning). In early 2020, it won a contract to equip Guinean hospitals with its telemedicine terminals. The World Food Programme also ordered some of its products while various public administrations (the Rotama township namely) expressed interest in its green kiosks. 

During the coronavirus pandemic, Mountaga Keïta built a telehealth tablet (Health Scan) equipped with a thermal camera and sensors that measure body temperature as well as the level of oxygen in the blood, and the heart rate. The data collected help identify Covid-19 positive cases and determine whether those cases required hospitalization. 

Thanks to the innovative products developed by Tulip Industries Ltd, Mountaga has won several awards. He was for instance the winner of the 2017 Digital Week in Guinea. At the 2018 Africa Innovation Summit, he was named one of the top African innovators. The same year, he received the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) gold medal. In 2019, he also received the gold medal from the French Inventors Association and the European Inventors Association Award.

All those achievements are the result of the strong professional experience he built with several financial institutions in the U.S. He has for instance been a senior banker for Bank of America. 

Melchior Koba