Francesco DeParis

Francesco DeParis is the current Director of Operations at Couchsurfing. Prior to this, they served as the Chief Operating Officer at Mirror from November 2014 to March 2017. At Mirror, Francesco was responsible for navigating the SEC & CFTC regulatory framework to create new financial swaps products, developing ISDA contract specifications, preparing external marketing materials, and identifying new opportunities for business development and pipeline process. Francesco was also responsible for translating business requirements into product specifications and user stories to create MVP applications with a lead engineering team. Furthermore, Francesco managed the company's finance, accounting and Human Resources functions, reporting to the board on a monthly basis. Some of their key achievements include adopting a Technical Product Manager role to ensure the Board had insight on how a blockchain smart contract trading platform functioned and how to make it commercially viable, and reprioritizing projects against a matrix of importance to MVP, viability and team capabilities that resulted in a Series-A funding of USD $8.8M.

Francesco completed their undergraduate degree at Babson College, where they studied finance and entrepreneurship. Francesco then went on to earn their certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School Online. In addition, Francesco holds certifications from the ISDA in Derivatives Products Overview Course and Fundamentals of Derivative Operations and Trade Processing, Reforge in Monetization and Pricing Deep Dive, and Scrum Alliance in Scrum Master Certified (SMC) and Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC).

Some of their coworkers include Amanda Miller - Senior Trust & Safety Lead, Nicolas Milliard - Head of Mobile. Their manager is Patrick Dugan, CEO.