Franco Gasperoni

Franco Gasperoni is CEO and co-founder of AdaCore, the provider of non-proprietary tools for safe and secure software development in aerospace, defense, and railway systems. Since 1994, AdaCore has transformed the business of tools for critical software development into a service combining high-quality freely licensed tools with innovative front-line engineering assistance.

Franco has an engineering degree from Mines ParisTech, France and a PhD in Computer Science from New York University, USA. While in France, Franco worked on credit mechanisms and their potential instability with Maurice Allais, the French economics Nobel laureate. Franco has lectured and conducted research in computer science at New York University and Télécom ParisTech.