About Mounir Shita

Mounir Shita is an entrepreneur, researcher, and futurist in the technology sector. Beyond his startup activities, Mr. Shita also advises fellow entrepreneurs and investors on technologies of tomorrow. He is the person behind the concept of “Rapid Futurism”, the theory on how to implement future visions in today’s limited social and business framework.

Mr. Shita is also the founder, chairman, and CIO of GoLife Mobile, a Portland, OR startup aiming at delivering the world’s first realistic technology to tap into a currently unexplored market opportunity. At GoLife Mr. Shita is responsible for the technology concept, engineering management, and business strategy.

Previously Mr. Shita has founded five startups from gaming to smart home companies. In 2004 he founded PayWi, a mobile payment company, where he lead a team to build the first social payment platform. The company was sold to investors in 2006.

Mr. Shita also runs RippleFX Ventures, an idea incubator and research firm. At RippleFX Mr. Shita has devoted considerable amount of time research the relationship between humans, businesses, and technology and how to fast track “futuristic” technologies into today’s marketplace.

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mounirshita

Twitter: @mshita