Emanuele Francioni

A tech entrepreneur, blockchain evangelist and researcher in decentralized technologies, Emanuele has spent more than a decade in leading various multi-disciplinary development teams and R&D departments in delivering multi million technology projects for top corporate organizations such as Tomtom, Commerzbank and Vitrociset. As an entrepreneur, he started up (and successfully exited) enterprises in the realm of IoT, connected car and blockchain and is actively advising organizations that wish to launch their decentralized propositions. Co-author of several patents related to novelties in sensor networks, realtime-locating service, connected-car applications, he is the inventor and main advocate of a new breed of confidential permissionless consensus aiming to overcome the inefficiencies and unfairness of proof-of-work and proof-of-stake. These novelties seat at the core of the Dusk Network, a decentralized privacy-oriented and blockchain based network that is scalable, functional and suitable to satisfy regulatory compliance requirements as well as the level of confidentiality needed by real world business applications. Emanuele is the founder and tech lead of Dusk. Specialties: Develop people and workforce strategies; manage performances and resolve conflicts; Define, Create, Start-up and Supervise Software Development and Project life-cycle. Simplify unnecessary complex solutions both in software and process Coach on Agile project management like SCRUM and Kanban Highly knowledgable about highly scalable systems, big (spatial) data, massive content distribution, localization services and over-the-air communication. Well versed in Java, Python, Scala, C++