Every supply chain leaks somewhere. Finding the leak and sealing it is the work Joanny Compaore has done for more than a decade, in settings that share almost nothing except that description. He is an entrepreneur and supply chain consultant specializing in operations optimization, currently advising companies in the mining sector with particular attention to gold and oil. The role that established his public reputation was Chief Executive Officer of SONABHY, the national oil company of Burkina Faso, where infrastructure expansion, digital transformation, and rigorous process improvement together changed how an entire country moved and stored its fuel.

Joanny Compaore ran SONABHY from May 2022 to September 2023, and the company was named Best Company of the Year for 2023 in the national review of state companies chaired by the Prime Minister.

Physical capacity was the constraint he attacked first. He championed a tank farm capacity extension delivering 100,000 additional metric tonnes of storage, which pushed the country's fuel security autonomy from 12 days out to 32. Burkina Faso is landlocked, its fuel arriving by truck from far-off seaports, so close to tripling that margin redefined what a supply disruption would actually cost. Alongside it, he led a digital transformation of the company's supply chain, deploying technology that improved both transportation visibility and data accuracy. Sales under his leadership reached 1.2 billion dollars, up 500 million from the prior year, while a separate program of process improvement across distribution operations returned 65 million dollars in savings during 2023.

His tenure was not confined to operations. He committed one million dollars of corporate social responsibility funding to medical support for wounded soldiers, and he chaired the executive committee behind SONABHY's basketball and volleyball teams, negotiating a 35 percent increase to their budget.