Media, Design, and Production Associate

Tiémoko Samaké
Media, Design, and Production Associate A dynamic professional passionate about Media, Design, and Production.
With a passion for graphic design and photography, Tiemoko is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a master’s degree from the Faculty of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. In the past few years, he has been a logistics assistant, interpreter, translator, photographer and graphic designer. From 2018 to 2020 Tiémoko worked for the NGO Accountability Lab-Mali which focuses on the fight against corruption and the promotion of good governance. Founder of K-mex Prod & Design, he has served as a photographer and graphic design consultant on several projects funded by the U.S. Embassy, the World Bank and other organizations. Recent projects include TEDx Bamako, Francophone Investors Summit, Timbuctu Youth Empowerment program, Yali Mali etc. He has also done photography work for the British Embassy in Mali. He now joins the BiD team as a Media, Design, and Production Associate. Tiemoko strongly believes in BiD’s mission and vision as for him, it is an effective way to contribute to the development of his country.

Finance & Data Analysis Associate

Aïcha DAO
Finance & Data Analysis Intern Aicha holds a Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance from the Canadian University Dubai. She worked as an audit trainee at KPMG Lower Gulf in Dubai.
She also worked at Union Motors Dubai where she served as an Inter-Account Assistant. Moreover, she was an intern at UBA BANK – MALI first in the Treasury Department, then in the Retail Banking department.

Business Development, Marketing & Communication Associate

Korotimi TRAORE
Business Development, Com & Marketing Associate A dynamic junior professional passionate about Marketing, Communication and Business development.
Korotimi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Duquesne University, United States; and a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) in Management from Point Park University, United States. After graduation, she has joined the Bank for Trade and Industry in Mali as an intern in the Sales and Marketing Department. She now joins BiD as a Marketing, Communication & Business Development associate, providing Marketing and Communication support to BiD and its Clients.

Founder & Executive Director

Mahamadou DIAKITE
Founder & Executive Director
Business Development expert with more than 10 years  experience both in the private sector and international development organizations.
He has a track record of structuring and supporting SMEs strategic growth. He is a seasoned business trainer with great capacity  in leading business transformation processes. He makes great use of new technologies and tools to improve business performance.
He is currently the Founder and Executive Director Baobab Intelligence & Development, a company that provides support to local SMEs to grow their business. For the past 4 years he served as a Business Development Lead Consultant and Advisor to many CEOs including SHOPREATE Libre Service; positioning the company as the leading retail store in Mali. He also worked for international organizations such as AECOM, FHI360, Varkey Foundation on donors (USAID, DFID) funded programs to support the scaling of local NGOs activities. He has studied at the University of Pretoria. He holds a Bachelor degree in Information and Technology Management System and a Bachelor Honours in Management of Technology. He is an Alumni of Barack Obama´s flagship and very selective program of Young African Leaders Initiatives (YALI) from 2014; and he has been contributing to training young entrepreneurs ever since.

Business Development Lead

Abdallahi Ould Mohamed
Business Development Lead Abdallahi has joined BiD, since its inception, as a seasoned business development consultant with over 6 years of experience. In the past 12 years, he lived in lived in South Africa, Kenya Ghana and Mali.
Currently he’s working with myAgro a social enterprise helping small scale farmers to access farming inputs. Since 2017, Abdallahi leads myAgro’s efforts to build sustainable relations with the government to align on its mission on food security. In addition, he is the focal point for fundraising and partnership opportunities for Mali.
In Ghana, Abdallahi worked with Stanford Institute for Innovation in developing Economies (SEED). With SEED, Abdallahi was assigned to Dannex Pharmaceutical LTD to contribute to their strategic transformation plan for growth. He was a member of the merger and integration teams after the firm successfully completed two acquisitions in Ghana.
He’s is a MasterCard Foundation scholar; he studied at United States International University – Africa in Kenya where he graduated with a degree in International Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.

Finance & Administration Lead

Abdrahamane KONATE
Finance & Admin Lead A seasoned finance expert with a track record in supporting SMEs growth. Abou has more than 20 years experience in accounting and finance.
He has big expertise in cost accounting and great skill in setting up financial management systems, drafting financial reports and financial projections. Abdrahamane holds a master’s degree in management specializing in Quantitative Analysis and Economic Policy (AQPE) and studied at IUED Geneva with a certificate of development in entrepreneurship and promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises. He worked on the USAID “Mali Finance for Food Security and Women Entrepreneurs (FFSWE) as a mentor supporting SMEs drafting business plans with financial projection. He also supported SMEs access to finance by drafting loan applications and doing intermediation with banks /IMF. He has done the same work in other similar livestock projects (AFD/World Bank/EU).

IT Manager

Fousseyni SANGARE
IT Manager An Information System expert with over 10 years of experience developping Web based and Android Appliccation. He joined BiD, since its inception, as an information system consultant.
He holds a Bachelor degree in EXACT SCIENCE and a Master degree in IT MANAGEMENT, Mali. He has great knowlege on Web based and Android mobile appplications and has lead the development big projects such as Wed based management systems, online stores, websites. Fousseyni is passionate about computer programming with great skills in languages such as HTML, PHP, MySql, CSS, Javascript, JQuery and so on.

Administration & Procurement Assistant

Geneviève M. DIALLO
Admin & Procurment Assistant A junior professional with great management and business planning skills. She has experience working as a COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS MANAGER at BMD (Business Management and development).
She holds a Bachelor degree in HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT and a Master degree in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY from the Wisconsin International University College, Ghana. She joins BiD as Administrative and Procurement Assistant. Genevieve is passionate about agriculture and continues to develop agricultural entrepreneurship.