Our team
Bizao is a growing company with around fifty employees spread between Paris, Abidjan, Dakar, Kinshasa, Douala and Tunis. Given the complexity and transversality of the challenges linked to the digitalization of payments, we have formed a complementary, dynamic team, passionate about Africa, bold and multicultural.
A growth engine for modern businesses in Africa
Bizao is a Fintech with a 100% Telecom DNA whose head office is in Paris and which operates in around ten African countries with an IT center of excellence based in Dakar. Since 2019, Bizao has built a vast network of banking partners and telecom operators in Africa which already allows it to cover a market of 200 million mobile subscribers.
Originating from an intrapreneurship project within the Orange group, Bizao has been an independent company since 2019 which employs more than 80 employees and whose technical platform processes 36.7 billion transactions per year. To provide comprehensive expertise to customer payment digitalization issues, we have formed a multicultural team from organizations such as Orange, KPMG, Capgemini, Atos, Western Union, GIM UEMOA, Societe Generale, etc.
At Bizao, we are passionate about Africa and all emerging areas with underbanked populations, and strongly driven by the desire to nurture numerous talents and in particular women in Fintech professions on the continent.
Executive Committee
We are a close-knit, diverse, and adventure-driven team committed to building something enduring.
Aurélien DUVAL-DELORT
Founder and CEO
A veteran of the telecoms industry, he drew on his deep understanding of the business and technology opportunities in the mobile payment ecosystem to create Bizao in 2019.
“This entrepreneurial journey developed with Aliou Komota, a former colleague at Orange, and together we have charted a bold course in Africa’s fintech sector.”
Bizao’s story is marked by a successful exit from the Orange Group, a quest for independence and an ongoing commitment to the development of the financial sector in Africa.
Aurélien holds a Master of Science in Management from ESSEC Business School in France.
Aliou KOMOTA
Chief Product & Technical Officer
He has 10 years’ experience in telecoms at Orange and Huawei, where he developed expertise in APIs. In his last position, he was responsible for innovation at Orange in Mali.
Juliette DOMBRET
Chief Legal Officer
After practicing as a lawyer in M&A and private equity departments, Juliette was legal director of the fast-growing Baobab Group, a leader in digital financial inclusion in Africa and China. Drawing on her African experience, she joined BIZAO in November 2020.
Elodie BARBIER DEON
Chief Operating Officer
Elodie Barbier Déon has extensive experience in strategy and operations. She was a partner at Time for the Planet and co-manager at SPIL within the Lefebvre Sarrut group. She also led operations at Qotto and served as Director of Consulting at Julhiet Sterwen. In January 2023, she began working as a freelance strategy and operations consultant. With her strong expertise in Africa, she joined Bizao to lead operations and support the fintech’s growth.
- Aurélien DUVAL-DELORTFounder and CEO
- Aliou KOMOTAChief Product & Technical Officer
- Juliette DOMBRETChief Legal Officer
- Elodie BARBIER DEONChief Financial Officer
