Francesca Escoto

Published: Oct. 2, 2014, 11:31 p.m.

Francesca Escoto, Founder and CEO, Startups for Social Impact and Innovation Lab Francesca Escoto started her first venture designing software to track the performance of aircraft engines in 1998, and has since started multiple businesses. Equipped with 15 years of strategic planning experience, and charged with passion for sustainable social change, Escoto is leading a new kind of revolution: To fight poverty by growing existing micro-enterprises through tech. She has an Industrial Engineering & Management degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and was born and raised in the Dominican Republic.