It was also where he found the first important influence in his life: his mom, Melba.
“My mom is the strongest person I know,” he says. “My daughters, Anisha and Elanah, are now also valuable influences for me. They are amazing, brilliant, motivated, and kind.”
Komi thinks his friends and family would describe him with three Ds: determined, demanding, and devoted.
“I’m a competitive person – I like to win,” he says. “I enjoy accomplishing challenges that people might consider extremely difficult, maybe even impossible. I’m also motivated by learning. I believe in lifelong learning, and I think my greatest strength is my intellectual curiosity and my drive to learn and build amazing projects.”
So what’s next on his bucket list?
“In 2022, I got to see Garth Brooks sing ‘Calling Baton Rouge’ in Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge,” he says. “That was a bucket list item that is hard to top, especially as he actually set off the Richter scale in the school’s geology department. We called it a ‘Garthquake’! A close second is building an LNG import or export project in West Africa, where my family is from.”
