Mobile Entrepreneur, Lifestyle Innovator, Strategist, and Researcher
Portland, Oregon Area
- Current
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- Founder, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer at GoLife Mobile
- Owner at RippleFX Ventures
- Past
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- Advisor at Pet Recovery Network
- Founder and CTO at PayWi Corporation
- Founder and Owner at Seedbase.com
- Hardware Engineer at Cognex Corporation
- Engineer at Nikon Precision
- Education
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- Oregon Institute of Technology
- Høgskolen i Vestfold
- Raelingen Technical College
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Mounir Shita’s Summary
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.
Mounir Shita’s Specialties:
Mobile Technology
Lifestyle Technology
Business Strategy
Rapid Futurism
Mounir Shita’s Experience
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Founder, Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer
GoLife Mobile
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Wouldn't it be cool to take a picture of the bar code on the almost empty back of chicken and have your mobile automatically add it to your shopping list and maybe even recommend a wine that goes with it? Then when you're at the grocery story it even tells you which aisle your items are located at. Maybe even offer recipe suggestion on the items you're buying? Or what if you could go to a restaurant and have your mobile automatically sort the menu to fit within your budget and diet?
The possibilities in mobile lifestyle are endless. Technically lifestyle applications are easy to build but almost impossible to monetize with traditional technology design techniques and business models.
The GoLife technology, called Vado, is designed to allow initially developers to empower their own local communities with mobile lifestyle applications and still generate a world wide revenue through GoLife's collaboration platform. -
Owner
RippleFX Ventures
(Wireless industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
RippleFX is a consulting and research company. The main focus is to research new technologies, methods, and business models to enable a future mobile lifestyle societies.
I will publish some of my research starting 2009. Also, look out for new series of webinars starting January 2009. -
Advisor
Pet Recovery Network
(Wireless industry)
January 2006 — April 2008 (2 years 4 months)
Advising and helping to build a pet/wireless company from the ground up to take on lost pet recovery by using mobile devices.
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Founder and CTO
PayWi Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
December 2003 — October 2006 (2 years 11 months)
Founded PayWi Corporation to offer cutting edge mobile and social payment technology. The technology was chosen to be presented at the bi-annual DEMO conference (February 2006).
Sold my stake of the company early 2007. Company is now under new management and moved to Silicon Valley developing a different payment service. -
Founder and Owner
Seedbase.com
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
October 2002 — December 2005 (3 years 3 months)
Seedbase developed a text message service for mobile phones. The text messages was sent through data network going around the carriers allowing each message to be priced at a fraction of the cost of normal messages
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Hardware Engineer
Cognex Corporation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CGNX; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 3 months)
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Engineer
Nikon Precision
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
March 2000 — August 2000 (6 months)
Mounir Shita’s Education
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Oregon Institute of Technology
BSEET , Electronics Engineering , 1998 — 2000
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Høgskolen i Vestfold
Electronics and Computer Engineering , Software and Electronics Engineering , 1996 — 1998
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Raelingen Technical College
ASEE , Electronics Engineering , 1994 — 1996
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Mounir Shita’s Interests:
My interest: Soccer, Basketball, anything that has to do with consumer technology especially mobile phones.
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