Francesco Casertano was born in Naples on 16 February 1982, he graduated in Computer Science in 2006 from the University of Salerno. He joins the research group of I.T.Staff S.p.A. (later Opera21) at the headquarters in Naples. In 2008 he became responsible for several projects in the area of Energy and Utilities for customers such as Enel, Terna, GSE. Since 2012 he has held first-level managerial positions at Indra. In April 2014 he was appointed Head of Offering in Italy and Manager for the Infrastructure and Transport market. Since 2017 he became head of Cyber Security Market for INDRA/Minsait in Italy and in the 2018 head of Cyber Security Market for Europe.