Francesco Bardazzi was born and raised in Italy, and has a French and Turkish background. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Turkish. He graduated with a degree in finance from Univer- sità di Firenze in 2005. Francesco began his career in sales and became the Executive Director of Sales for Corcos Srl. Upon mo- ving to the United Stated from Italy, he then went onto become a financial analyst at the American Stock Exchange in New York. In 2012 he decided to apply his knowledge in sales and finance into Commercial Real Estate, where he quickly became the point of reference for the Italian community in NYC. In this capacity, he oversaw over 300,000sf in retail leasing volume.