After earning his MBA in 1996 at City University in London, Francesco launched his career in the emerging multi-media arena with the introduction of high speed Internet connectivity. Since then Francesco has more than 70 work projects to his credit involving leading edge digital media authoring, compression, encoding, interactive learning applications and deployment projects. He has had numerous speaking engagements throughout North America on the subject of multi-media deployment and has written several books and articles on the subject.

For the past 8 years, Francesco has also been a multi-media instructor at various prestigious technical schools including most recently the Art Institute of Vancouver and the Vancouver Film School. He has also taught courses for industry professionals at various locations including New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Stanford University.

Francesco holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering and is a certified Apple Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro Trainer.