Summary
Francesco Aimone is a founder and policy-focused industrial electrification expert with eight years of experience bringing hardtech products and programs from concept to market and scaling them with Fortune 100/500 partners. As CEO and co-founder of a cleantech startup, he developed proprietary low-carbon process-heating equipment aimed at large-scale decarbonization while leading product, supply chain, sales, and carbon analyses across food & beverage, chemical, and cement industries. Now a Senior Fellow at C2ES, he blends hands-on commercialization experience with policy advocacy to help manufacturers improve productivity, profitability, and emissions outcomes. His background in public health program design and data-driven program launches informs a pragmatic, outcome-oriented approach to complex systems change. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with interdisciplinary fluency—engineering, operations, and regulatory strategy—to tackle industrial climate challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MPH Sociomedical Sciences, MPH Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Bachelor’s Degree History; Health Studies, Bachelor’s Degree History; Health Studies at Michigan State University