Florent Bardy

Florent Bardy is a Senior Innovation Strategist with expertise in B2B trade.

He holds a Master degree in business administration from Audencia Nantes Management School with a specialisation in Finance. Florent has accumulated over a decade of trade credit expertise from top tier financial institutions in Singapore, Paris and London. Florent is credited with taking part in the creation of the financial institutions department of the French Credit Insurer Coface in Western Europe.

In 2018 he created his Innovation Consulting Practice, Tradetech Ventures to offer ideation, scouting, research and product design services to corporate venture builders and startups in the B2B trade sector. He first collaborated with the B2B Venture Builder Alpine style before taking part in the foundation of the first trade innovation ecosystem, AREA42, backed by Belgian Credit Insurer Credendo.

Florent co-designed and managed the AREA42 innovation lab to gather relevant ideas, turn them into experiments. This team work allowed us to bring innovative tradetech products to the ecosystem.

As an Entrepreneur in Residence Florent can help you kickstart or scale your new fintech venture or start up studio.