Grace Francisco

CEO

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States30 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in technology executive roles.
  • Founder of Philly Tech & AI Alliance.
  • Co-author of three patents.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI ecosystem builder with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningDeveloper RelationsStrategy

Other Skills

Presentation SkillsPLGAPI FirstDeveloper MarketingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)API DevelopmentOpen-Source SoftwareVenture CapitalStrategic Business AdviceProduct Led GrowthCross Cultural ManagementCross-cultural Communication SkillsDecision-MakingGo-to-market StrategyCloud Computing

About

Grace Francisco is a technology executive and ecosystem builder with 20+ years scaling developer and product strategy at Microsoft, Intuit, Atlassian, Roblox, MongoDB, and Cisco. She founded the Philly Tech & AI Alliance to unite Greater Philadelphia’s enterprise leaders, founders, and capital — accelerating B2B innovation and positioning the region as a leading AI-driven tech hub. Grace is the founder of advisory firm m2i, co-author of three patents, and serves on the boards of The Code Registry, LaunchPad Philly, and IWF Philadelphia. She advises FSH Tech, CodePlain, and EMG, and actively invests in early-stage companies shaping the future of enterprise and AI. She speaks and writes on AI, developer strategy, and building tech ecosystems that scale with intention.

Experience

30 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Emg.ai

2 roles

Advisor

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Co-Founder, Partner

May 2025Dec 2025 · 7 mos

*codeplain

Advisor

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

The code registry

Board Member

May 2025Present · 1 yr

Overplay

Angel Investor

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Overplay is a patented platform where anyone can turn their videos into games with no code, in minutes.

Integrated reality labs

Angel Investor

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • IRL brings excitement, competition, and connection to everyday life through real-world massively multiplayer games.

Ai data co-op

2 roles

Advisory Board Member (For Profit)

Nov 2024Feb 2025 · 3 mos

Founding Board Member (Non-Profit)

Feb 2024Nov 2024 · 9 mos

  • AI Data CO-OP focuses on aggregating data for AI deep learning training. We manage data for cooperative groups who want to share data together, manage royalties for those who want their data to benefit AI and publish datasets to the public for research and entrepreneurship.

Ben franklin technology partners of southeastern pennsylvania

Executive Review Committee member - Tech

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Fsh tech (contenda)

Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • FSH Technologies is the software platform for municipalities

Panto

Strategic Advisor

Jun 2024Jun 2025 · 1 yr

  • Panto is the Internet’s Intellectual Property Infrastructure.
  • Panto helps users claim IP, track IP, and make royalties. Anywhere on the Internet. https://www.pantopanto.com/
Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningStrategyPresentation Skills

Pangea

2 roles

Strategic Advisor

May 2024Jul 2024 · 2 mos

CTMO (Chief Technical Marketing Officer)

Feb 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Empowering developers to secure their apps in code.

M2i

Chief

May 2024Present · 2 yrs · Greater Philadelphia

Philly builds ai

Founder

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Emmeline ventures

Limited Partner

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Emmeline Ventures invests in female founders building game-changing businesses which empower women, in particular, to manage their health, build their wealth, and live in a cleaner, safer world.

Daytona

Angel Investor

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • The enterprise-grade GitHub Codespaces alternative, a self-hosted vendor-agnostic standardized development environment.

International women's forum

2 roles

Member

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Member IWF Pennsylvania
  • The International Women’s Forum is an invitation-only membership organization of more than 7,000 diverse and accomplished women from 33 nations on six continents.
  • IWF’s mission is to support the women leaders of today and tomorrow. We build better leadership across careers, continents and cultures by connecting accomplished women both locally and globally. Members include Fortune 500 executives, government leaders from the local to sovereign level, international nonprofit leaders, and luminaries from the academy, arts, and sciences. Each year, IWF hosts two international conferences that bring together these thought leaders to examine critical issues of the day within a local context and through a women’s lens.

Executive Fellow

Sep 2022Jun 2023 · 9 mos

  • The Leadership Fellows program of the International Women's Forum is a year-long, intensive executive development program for 44 select participants. The 2022-2023 cohort, drawn from 10 countries, participates in executive training and education at Harvard Business School and INSEAD France.

Cloudchipr

Seed Investor

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Cloud cost management and analytics platform.

Penpot

Strategic angel investor

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers together.

Basis

Seed Investor

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • API to help developers access their SMB customers' financial data

Junction (formerly vital)

Seed Investor

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Developer platform for aggregating consumer health data.

Questdb

Investor

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • QuestDB is an open source time-series database.

Cisco

VP Developer Relations Strategy and Experience

May 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningPLGAPI FirstStrategyDeveloper Marketing+1

Drupal association

Board Member

Nov 2019Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Software as a Service (SaaS)Developer RelationsExecutive LeadershipStrategic PlanningPLGAPI First+5

Mongodb

VP, Global Developer Relations & Education

Jul 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Global

Strategy

Igda foundation

Committee Member, Communications Team

Sep 2018Apr 2019 · 7 mos

Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningPLGAPI FirstStrategyDeveloper Marketing+1

Weavr ai

Advisor

Jan 2018Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningPLGAPI FirstStrategyDeveloper Marketing+1

Roblox

VP, Developer Relations & Education

Apr 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Mateo, CA

Strategic PlanningStrategy

Atlassian

Head of Global Developer Relations

Jun 2014Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco

Strategic PlanningStrategy

Yodlee

Director, Developer Strategy

May 2013Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Redwood Shores (HQ)

  • Operationalizing the business for growth and scale
  • Product management of the end to end developer experience
  • Launch of the first full featured developer portal for Yodlee
  • Developer marketing and evangelism
  • Led evangelism/presales as well as strategic customer engagements and deployments
  • Alignment across teams to accelerate the business: PDM, PGM, Engineering, Ops, PS, Customer Care, Security, Legal, Finance, etc.
Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningPLGStrategyDeveloper MarketingPresentation Skills

Intuit

Sr. Manager, Developer Relations

Sep 2012May 2013 · 8 mos · Mountain View, CA (HQ)

  • I led developer programs, evangelism, and technical content for Intuit's strategic developer offering - Intuit Partner Platform (IPP). My team was responsible for driving the voice of the Developer throughout the company, bringing rich, new services to market and fostering a vibrant ecosystem of developers on the platform.
Strategic PlanningStrategyDeveloper MarketingPresentation Skills

Microsoft corporation

6 roles

Sr. Business Development Manager

Apr 2010Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Drove strategic integrations and partnerships with numerous Open Source communities such as WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. Opened dialogue and built relationships bridging the gap between commercial interests and community needs. Work in this area resulted in improved interoperability of popular OSS apps on Microsoft Windows, SQL Server, and Azure as well as a shift from negative perception/relations to neutral/positive.
Strategic PlanningStrategyDeveloper MarketingPresentation Skills

Sr. Program Manager

Dec 2008Jul 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Focused on Web Developer strategy, online engagement and field guidance.
StrategyPresentation Skills

Co-Chair Silicon Valley Women@Microsoft

Apr 2007Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Presentation Skills

Sr. Program Manager

Mar 2007Dec 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Program management of online communities:
  • Channel9.msdn.com
  • on10.net
  • Channel8.msdn.com
  • edge.technet.com
  • visitmix.com
  • Also launched conference sites microsoftpdc.com (2008) and visitmix/Mix09.
StrategyPresentation Skills

Marketing, Silicon Valley Women@Microsoft

Jan 2007Apr 2007 · 3 mos

Presentation Skills

Technical Evangelist

Jun 2004Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Evangelism for Visual Studio Team System.
StrategyPresentation Skills

Borland

Sr. Systems Engineer

Jun 2002May 2004 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Technical presentations and demos for enterprise development tools - requirements, design, development, test.
Presentation Skills

Altoweb

Technical Marketing Manager

Jun 2000Mar 2002 · 1 yr 9 mos

Presentation Skills

Startups

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 1997May 2000 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Presentation Skills

Lotus development/ibm

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 1995Nov 1997 · 2 yrs

Education

Harvard Business School

Jun 2023Jun 2023

INSEAD

Cross Cultural Leadership Program — Executive Leadership

Mar 2023Mar 2023

Golden Gate University

BBA — Business Management

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