Francine is the co-founder of Stealthmode Partners, an accelerator and advocate for entrepreneurs in technology and health care that was founded in 1998. Prior to Stealthmode, she owned two marketing companies, and served as Director of Worldwide Press Relations for Intel and the CMO of Innovative Environmental Products. Her communications specialties are technology, healthcare and financial services.
Francine was an Entrepreneurial Fellow of the Eller Entrepreneurship Center at University of Arizona, and was a founder of Social Media Club Arizona and the Arizona Software Association. She is also founder of the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation, which provides entrepreneurship training to at-risk populations.
She is co-founder of the blog USHealthCrisis, and blogs for Fast Company, Huffington Post, and Stealthmode’s blog.