Esmeralda Megally is the CEO and co-founder of Xsensio. She received an EPFL Innogrant in early 2014 to pursue Xsensio. Prior to that, she has been working at Boston-based venture capital firm Commons Capital as manager to launch new technologies in emerging countries. Her work was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and her MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. Her own innovations have been awarded the MIT IDEAS International Technology Award, the MIT IDEAS Graduate Student Award and the Harvard Catalyst Grant.