Francisco Molinero is a renowned capital-raising strategist and growth advisor with over 15 years of experience in private capital markets, Fortune 500 corporations, and US governmental science and technology investments. Molinero is also an expert in start-ups and entrepreneurship, having worked with lower and middle-market companies across a broad spectrum of sectors, ranging from industrial and aerospace to energy, defense, and security.

His credentials are impressive, having studied Project and Infrastructure Finance Executive Program, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law at London Business School. He also holds an MBA and honors business diplomacy certificate from the School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University, where he studied a double degree; researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Chemical Engineering at Yale University, and a B.Sc./ M.Sc. / PhD (ABD - all but dissertation), Mechanical & Chemical Engineering, Summa cum Laude (Matricula de Honor) at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Molinero's primary skills include capital raising, debt, equity, investment banking, infrastructure banking, corporate growth strategy, entrepreneurship, corporate venture capital, open innovation, and project and infrastructure finance. He also possesses vast knowledge in advanced technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, neuromorphic computing, cybersecurity, 5G, quantum communications, advanced microelectronics, and more.

Molinero's professional portfolio comprises a list of high-profile corporations, including former Managing Director at Castle Placement, Corporate Development at X Corp Solutions Inc. and Corporate Strategy - Growth Group/Corporate Venture Capital at Cummins Inc. He has also served as a Senior Transaction Advisor-Infrastructure at CIFI, and Commercial Reviewer at the SBIR/STTR program "America's Seed Fund" at the National Science Foundation. Molinero currently works as a Project Manager - Prime Contract at the NSIN - National Security Innovation Network, an entity dedicated to harnessing transformative technologies to advance national security objectives.