Dr. Frederick Giarrusso is a business leader and board advisor whose work has focused on the creation and growth of technology-driven companies across aerospace, artificial intelligence, energy, financial services, and industrial technology. Over more than three decades, he has founded and led ventures that helped establish new markets, structured complex global financings, and guided companies through periods of strategic inflection. Across these efforts, he has led initiatives generating more than $60 billion in enterprise value and structured over $5 billion in equity, debt, and project financing. Dr. Giarrusso is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Finance Technology Leverage, where he has developed innovative capital structures—including insurance-backed financing—for large-scale projects in aerospace, energy, and industrial technology. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Rotary Rocket Company, helping establish the modern private space industry. He later founded Data Digest Corporation out of Stanford University, pioneering predictive analytics technologies that became foundational to modern generative AI. He previously served as Managing Partner of Decision Strategies, an international strategy consulting firm advising global clients in energy and life sciences, and as Managing Director at Llenroc Capital, an investment management firm focused on public markets. Dr. Giarrusso has served on multiple corporate boards and has advised executive teams across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He was a National Trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, supporting an organization serving more than four million children daily at thousands of locations worldwide. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Time, CNN, NBC Nightly News, New Scientist, and other media. Dr. Giarrusso holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, where he taught entrepreneurship and decision analysis. He studied electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and mathematics and computer science at Princeton University.