These days Joanny Compaore spends his time on two things: advising mining companies on how to run their operations better, and building a trading business of his own. As a supply chain consultant specializing in operations optimization, he works with firms in the mining sector, concentrating on gold and oil. As an entrepreneur, he operates in commercial brokerage and import and export, trading cocoa and coffee out of Côte d'Ivoire and bringing vehicle spare parts from Europe into West Africa, with potash export from North America to West Africa as the next line he intends to open.
He is also studying. Joanny Compaore is currently pursuing an MBA with a concentration in supply chain management and organizational leadership, and since January 2026 he has held the Certified Supply Chain Professional credential through APICS. He has volunteered with Siloam Mission since June 2026 and with Harvest Mission since August 2026, applying his professional skills directly at both by handling, organizing, and distributing essential goods so that supply reaches vulnerable people reliably and on schedule.
Work backward from there and the record deepens considerably.
Running alongside that, he has served on the Board of Administration of the Refinery of Côte d'Ivoire as a member of its audit committee. The board sits quarterly. His responsibility was to oversee the chief executive's compliance with regulation and procedure and to put recommendations to the chairman, and those recommendations included introducing SCOR DS metrics and Internet of Things instrumentation across the refinery's supply chain. The result was a 25 percent reduction in lead time and a 15 percent improvement in customer satisfaction in 2023.
The position that made his name came before both. From May 2022 to September 2023, Joanny Compaore was Chief Executive Officer of SONABHY, the national oil company of Burkina Faso. Under his leadership the company was named Best Company of the Year for 2023 in the national review of state companies chaired by the Prime Minister.
The achievement with the longest tail was physical. He championed a tank farm capacity extension that added 100,000 metric tonnes of storage and lifted the country's fuel security autonomy from 12 days to 32 days. Burkina Faso is landlocked and its fuel comes in by truck from distant seaports, which made close to tripling that buffer a change in what a disruption would actually do to the country. He paired it with a digital transformation of the company's supply chain, bringing in technology that improved transportation visibility and data accuracy. Sales during his leadership reached 1.2 billion dollars, 500 million dollars above the previous year, and process improvements applied to distribution operations produced 65 million dollars in savings in 2023 by themselves.
Beyond the balance sheet, two decisions stand out. He directed one million dollars in corporate social responsibility funding to medical support for wounded soldiers. He chaired the executive committee behind SONABHY's basketball and volleyball teams and secured them a 35 percent budget increase. On his way out he championed a five-year strategic plan covering 2023 through 2028, which the company adopted.
His credentials had been assembling for years by then. He completed an MA in Operations Management at the United States Command and General Staff College in June 2020, with coursework in leadership and organizations, human resources, and logistics operations, and in 2020 he was awarded the Burkina Medal of Honors. The Society of Logistics Engineers had recognized him as a Demonstrated Senior Logistician in November 2017, and he has been affiliated with the United States Quartermasters since April 2014. Earlier still, in June 2010, he earned a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Navy School of Morocco. The United States Army Logistics University awarded him a Combined Logistics Diploma as well. His technical work has long run on SAP S/4HANA across extended warehouse management, integrated business planning, and sourcing and procurement, supported by Excel analytics and Python.
From 2018 to 2019 he held the post of Senior Liaison Officer between U.S. Africa Command and partner African countries. Coordination of multinational logistics activities sat at the center of it, along with support for joint training and field operations. He planned and coordinated joint logistics exercises involving personnel from several African partner nations, and he designed and implemented field-feeding and transportation operations for large-scale multinational training. At the peak of the assignment that meant standing up recurring food service, transportation, and logistical support for roughly 1,200 personnel drawn from 32 countries. The work ran on continuous collaboration with American and African stakeholders across planning, resource allocation, and execution, mostly in cross-cultural, high-tempo conditions where a missed delivery was felt right away.
That role grew out of a longer tenure. Between October 2013 and April 2019, Joanny Compaore served as Transportation and Logistics Manager at the Direction of Logistics and Transportation of Burkina Faso. The job was operational and it was big: approximately 972,000 tons of merchandise moved from seaports to inland destinations, around 500 trailers and forklifts running each month, and supply chain support directed for United States Africa Command assistance that reached 32 countries by sea, air, and road.
He taught during that stretch as well. From January 2016 to January 2019 he was a part-time teaching assistant at the Institut Supérieur de Logistique de Ouagadougou, handling warehouse operations, transportation operations, and fleet management. He taught from real logistics scenarios rather than theory, moving students through inventory flow, storage operations, material handling, route planning, vehicle utilization, and cost optimization, because in his view the judgment those decisions call for comes only from making them.
The earliest entry on the record is the one he rates highest. From August 2011 to July 2012, Joanny Compaore was Logistics and Supply Chain Operations Manager for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, posted at the Forobaranga site under the Burkina Faso peacekeeping battalion BURKBATT3. He coordinated movement control and humanitarian services for United Nations staff and observers and planned the delivery of food and essential supplies to approximately one million internally displaced people. The United Nations awarded him its Medal in 2012. Asked which accomplishments he is proudest of, he names the Darfur mission first, and he describes helping people in need as the thread running through his working life, treating that mission and his current volunteering as the same commitment at different scales.
Four languages have supported that itinerary. Joanny Compaore speaks French, English, Darija, and Moore, useful across postings in West Africa, North Africa, Europe, and North America alike. Football is his sport, one he both plays and follows, and that enthusiasm found an outlet in his executive career by way of the athletic programs he backed at SONABHY.