Francis deSouza is Chief Executive Officer of Scale AI. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products at Google Cloud, CEO of Illumina, and President of Products and Services at Symantec. He co-founded SynthLabs, IMlogic, and Flash Communications, and serves on the board of Deel.
Francis deSouza is Chief Executive Officer of Scale AI. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products at Google Cloud, CEO of Illumina, and President of Products and Services at Symantec. He co-founded SynthLabs, IMlogic, and Flash Communications, and serves on the board of Deel.
Career
Francis deSouza studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. and S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; minor in Economics).
Chief Executive Officer at Scale from 2026-08 to Present in San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Consultant at Capgemini until Present
Member of the Technical Staff at IBM until Present
Researcher at MIT Media Lab until Present
Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products, Google Cloud at Google from 2025-01 to 2026-08 in Sunnyvale, California, United States
Chief Executive Officer at Illumina, Inc. from 2013-11 to 2023-06
President, Products and Services at Symantec Corporation from 2007-07 to 2013-11
Co-founder at SynthLabs until 2013
Product Unit Manager, Real-time Collaboration, Exchange Group at Microsoft from 1998 to 2001