Francis leads Bayshore’s technology vision and thought leadership. He is Bayshore’s technology inventor, and a recognized IoT industry visionary and evangelist. He has a significant following on subjects relating to technology, cybersecurity, and national economic and security policy. He is a noted expert in the fields of data security, computer-language design, compiler implementation, network communications and large-scale distributed application architectures.

He is a published author and frequent speaker, holds several issued and pending patents. He recently presented at the IoT World Forum, the IEEE Cybersecurity Conference, the Industrial Internet Consortium, the IoT Global Innovation Forum, the RSA Security Conference, OWASP, ATX Design News, Interop, Mobile World Congress and ICS-ISAC, among others.