Our leadership.

Emanuele Francioni

Founder & CEO

Emanuele Francioni

The architect behind Dusk.

Emanuele designed Dusk’s blockchain and original consensus mechanism. His 20+ years in engineering and technical leadership span TomTom, Commerzbank and Vitrociset, with a focus on distributed computing and cryptography.

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Fulvio Venturelli

Founder & CIO

Fulvio Venturelli

Four published patents.

Fulvio is a Dusk co-founder and software architect with a background in infrastructure and engineering project management. His work with Emanuele Francioni has produced four published patents spanning connected devices, sensor networks, positioning and blockchain.

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Emanuele Carboni

CFO

Emanuele Carboni

Successful serial entrepreneur.

A serial entrepreneur and early Dusk investor, Emanuele has built businesses across digital marketing and real estate. He joined Dusk’s operational team and board in 2023, bringing experience in company growth, investment and taking a business to maturity.

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Hein Dauven

CTO

Hein Dauven

Engineering expertise that spans blockchain and central banking.

As CTO, Hein directs technology and engineering across Dusk’s protocol and products. He has led three major technical initiatives at Dusk, overseeing architecture and engineering for DuskEVM and Dusk Trade and leading the Incentivized Testnet programme. His earlier work at Nahmii included Ethereum scaling and a digital-currency sandbox for Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank.

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Thomas Bäcker

Head of Products

Thomas Bäcker

Bringing financial products to life.

Thomas leads product direction for Dusk Trade. He led technical planning, smart-contract development and backend delivery for the platform behind BWRE Capital’s completed €3.5 million bond issuance, working alongside Hein Dauven. His earlier work focused on smart contracts and financial applications, following studies in Business Informatics.

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Bring finance onchain with us.

Dusk brings together specialists in engineering, cryptography, product, finance and marketing. Together, we’re building the technology, products and relationships that bring regulated finance onchain.

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