Post by Global Trade Review (GTR)

Souleïma Baddi spent close to two decades at Société Générale, including leading its commodity trade finance business in Geneva, before founding Komgo in 2018 – spinning the platform out from the bank’s blockchain proof of concept work into an independent, multi-shareholder network that has become one of the more resilient digital infrastructure providers in trade finance. For GTR’s latest Trade Leaders instalment, Baddi discusses why Komgo has thrived when others haven’t, what’s driving the company’s surge in bank and corporate adoption, and how her risk-tolerant and restless personality shapes her approach to building and running a scale-up.