Founder of Piston Vault and Esprow, a leading provider of financial technology solutions for global markets with clients like tier-1 broker-dealers, banks, and exchanges and offices in Singapore, New York, Tokyo. Francesco manages different aspects of the business, from technology to sales and strategy. He has been a programmer since the age of 10 and graduated top of his class with a thesis on “Neural Networks Applied to Speech Recognition”.

Software architect with international experience in the industry, research, and academia in EU, USA, and Asia. Emil worked at the SAP HQ in Walldorf and Hitachi’s research center in Yokohama where he published and presented a paper at an IEEE conference for distributed systems. Emil holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with a research thesis on distributed systems done at Carnegie Mellon University.