Francesco "Frank" Pompei is the founder and chief executive officer of Exergen Corporation. Pompei earned BS and MS mechanical engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2][3] He also earned an MS and PhD from Harvard University.[1] In addition to his work with Exergen, Pompei holds an appointment as Research scholar in the Dept. of Physics at Harvard.[1] Pompei created the technology that led to the invention of Exergen's Temporal Scanner while working as a researcher at Harvard [4] and he holds 60 patents [1][2][3] in "non-invasive thermometry for medical and industrial applications."[1]