Orson Francescone

Managing Director - FT Live - Financial Times INSEAD

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Jan 2024
FFAIR is a multi-award-winning exhibitor and sponsorship management platform, designed to make exhibiting easy for businesses. Our user-friendly modules automate onerous tasks, saving exhibitors and organisers time and effort while improving compliance. With FFAIR, exhibition organisers can create custom task lists and assign them to relevant stand types, ensuring a smooth flow for exhibitors to fulfil their obligations. Our single-checkout system simplifies the buying process for exhibitors, increasing sales and generating revenue for organisers. Meanwhile, our reporting and analytics give live visibility of suppliers, orders and exhibitor progress, removing the need for back-and-forth emails. At FFAIR, our focus on exhibitor experience ensures their satisfaction, boosting the likelihood of their return and the industrys overall health. We are committed to serving our customers and continuously evolving to meet their needs. Our platform is flexible and responsive, with the ability to integrate with third-party products, creating best-in-class solutions for organisers. FFAIR helps organisations improve their efficiency by automating tasks and minimizing personnel expenses, reducing staff burnout and supporting employee well-being. With FFAIR, exhibitors and organisers can focus on what matters most - connecting with customers and growing their business.
Investor
Nov 2023
Vendelux is the intelligence layer for B2B events. A Series B company backed by leading investors at Tribeca Venture Partners, S3, HubSpot Ventures, and more, we help 3,000+ marketing and sales teams turn events into a measurable revenue channel across 250,000+ global events.
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2024
Investor
Jan 2024
FFAIR is a multi-award-winning exhibitor and sponsorship management platform, designed to make exhibiting easy for businesses. Our user-friendly modules automate onerous tasks, saving exhibitors and organisers time and effort while improving compliance. With FFAIR, exhibition organisers can create custom task lists and assign them to relevant stand types, ensuring a smooth flow for exhibitors to fulfil their obligations. Our single-checkout system simplifies the buying process for exhibitors, increasing sales and generating revenue for organisers. Meanwhile, our reporting and analytics give live visibility of suppliers, orders and exhibitor progress, removing the need for back-and-forth emails. At FFAIR, our focus on exhibitor experience ensures their satisfaction, boosting the likelihood of their return and the industrys overall health. We are committed to serving our customers and continuously evolving to meet their needs. Our platform is flexible and responsive, with the ability to integrate with third-party products, creating best-in-class solutions for organisers. FFAIR helps organisations improve their efficiency by automating tasks and minimizing personnel expenses, reducing staff burnout and supporting employee well-being. With FFAIR, exhibitors and organisers can focus on what matters most - connecting with customers and growing their business.
2023
Investor
Nov 2023
Vendelux is the intelligence layer for B2B events. A Series B company backed by leading investors at Tribeca Venture Partners, S3, HubSpot Ventures, and more, we help 3,000+ marketing and sales teams turn events into a measurable revenue channel across 250,000+ global events.
2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
TNW is a global digital brand that informs, inspires and connects people who love tech through media, events and services. Learn whats next in tech now at TNW Conference. TNW Conference, June 20 & 21, Amsterdam <3
2019
Managing Director, FT Live
Nov 2019
About the Financial Times The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of one million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. Learn more about the FT, including announcements and career opportunities, at aboutus.ft.com. Subscribe at subs.ft.com.
2014
Managing Director
Oct 2014
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC has now rebranded as Delinian (https://www.linkedin.com/company/delinian/). Delinian is a global B2B information-services business. Delinian’s brands provide actionable data, analysis, intelligence and access in markets where information and convening market participants are valued. Delinian has customers in more than 140 countries and over 2,200 employees located in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
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