Francisco Palao is an award-winning entrepreneur who has also inspired and advised organizations around the world to evolve their business models to make a positive impact.
Francisco is the author of the books ‘Exponential Transformation’ and ‘Massive Transformative Purpose’. He is also the designer of the Purpose Launchpad framework.
Francisco is the founder of Purpose Alliance, a global community with +10,000 individuals and organizations in the world focused on empowering extraordinary people to create a better world.
Previously, Francisco was the CEO of OpenExO and founded several other startups including LeanMonitor, a cloud-based platform acquired by Gust.com in 2014; Nativoo, an AI-based platform for personalized tourism, acquired by SBTUR in 2012, and IActive, a high-tech company focused on AI, named Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2012.
Francisco has been honored with several prestigious international recognitions and was granted the TR35 award by MIT, honoring the Top Innovators under 35.
Francisco holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Granada, and an Executive MBA from the IE Business School. He is also a graduate student of Singularity University and Berkley University.