Bousol: combining cultural heritage with cutting-edge technology
Bousol is a digital fintech platform designed to modernize traditional financial practices for international communities. We facilitate seamless money transfers and provide a secure digital infrastructure for Sòl—community-based savings circles that have fostered trust and financial growth for generations. Our mission is to combine cultural heritage with cutting-edge technology, offering a borderless solution for saving and sending money.
Our Team
Jude Jean-Baptiste
CEO / Founder
Isaac Xiacheng Hou
Jude directs liquidity management, overall corporate strategy, and capital allocation to drive the sustainable growth and financial stability of the Bousol ecosystem.
Chief Technology Officer
Isaac leads the development of our core platform, secure digital wallet architecture, and robust APIs, ensuring top-tier security for all our fintech transactions.
Jean-Claude Fignole
Chief Impact Officer
Jean-Claude manages strategic NGO partnerships and oversees our distribution networks to ensure that our financial tools create a positive social impact globally.
Martine Laroche Cuvilly
Haiti Country Officer
Martine manages local operations and ensures full regulatory compliance within Haiti, navigating the local market to provide seamless and secure fintech services.
The Journey
How we got here.
BOUSOL didn't come from a hackathon. It came from four careers spent inside the problem — in banking, in development, in business, and in the technology that ties it together.
Chapter One
Finance & Banking
Jude built his foundation in banking, finance, and accounting. Martine spent over 20 years inside banking and manufacturing. Between them, the team carries deep experience in how formal capital moves — how it is structured, how institutions evaluate risk, and who those structures were designed to include. And, just as importantly, who they were not.
Chapter Two
International Development
Jean-Claude served as Haiti Program Director at Oxfam America and founded CLIO, an NGO-government liaison body, across more than a decade in the humanitarian sector. This is where the team learned how communities without formal banking organize their own financial lives — and understood that practices like the money circle are not informal workarounds. They are the system.
Chapter Three
Private Sector
Jude served as CFO of ePower S.A., a $55M+ infrastructure project structured with IFC and FMO financing. Martine turned around Cannex to $1M+ profitability and went on to lead the Chamber of Commerce Ouest. Isaac built payment and platform infrastructure at Binance and led a 20+ person engineering team at 360. Collectively: the team knows what operating at commercial scale actually requires — capital discipline, reliable infrastructure, and the relationships to get things done in real markets.
Chapter Four
Technology & Community Finance
Isaac brings blockchain and distributed systems expertise from Binance — the kind of technical depth that comes from building infrastructure where failure is not an option. Alongside that, Jude ran community lending programs for small businesses and groups locked out of traditional credit. These two threads — a platform people can depend on, and the community trust that makes financial circles work — are what BOUSOL was built to combine.
Today
BOUSOL — Paon Bleu Inc.
Four careers, one company. BOUSOL is not a pivot — it is the direct application of everything the team learned across finance, development, private industry, and technology. Every decision about how BOUSOL is built, who it serves, and how it operates comes from experience earned inside the problem.