BALBOA | CORP Adds ex-Paxos Treasury Head Campbell to Advisory Board

Editorial Calendar BALBOA | CORP Adds ex-Paxos Treasury Head Campbell to Advisory Board Campbell is founder and chief executive ofZero Knowledge Groupand previously served as Head of Treasury atPaxos, where he managed more than $22 billion in stablecoin reserves and contributed to the design of BUSD for Binance. He has also held senior trading and digital asset roles atJP Morgan,CitiandStone Ridge, and sits as adjunct professor atNYU Stern. Douglas is a three-time fintech founder whose career spans risk management, regulatory compliance and payments technology; he holds certifications including Certified Information Security Manager andAWSCertified Architect, and has served as independent director on several fintech boards.

Kevin Conabree, co-founder and chief executive of BALBOA | CORP, said the two appointments “bridge the worlds of traditional banking and digital assets, ensuring Balboa’s stablecoin can operate within formal trade-finance structures.” BALBOA1 is a USD-backed stablecoin issued on Ethereum, TRON and Base, with each token backed one-to-one by USD held in trust or partner banks. The company says its platform supports same-day international payments, on- and off-ramp access across more than 150 countries, and blockchain-based escrow and settlement workflows. The commercial target is the institutional B2B trade market, particularly shipping operators dealing with demurrage costs and settlement delays that arise from the mismatch between the pace of cargo movement and legacy banking rails.

Campbell said he is joining to support “a platform that solves critical payment delays in global trade and offers a great USD-native hedge for institutional use,” pointing to the compliance architecture and programmability of the stablecoin as the features that make it viable for trade finance counterparties. Douglas framed the company’s mission as “building the rails to synchronise money and cargo, reducing demurrage costs and providing the governance and risk controls required by regulators and shipping operators.” The advisory appointments reflect a