Founder & Executive Director

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.