Future Technology Leverage
Welcome to FTL, where innovation, purpose, and sustainability are at the heart of success. We empower businesses to not only chase success but make a meaningful impact. With strategies rooted in purpose and sustainability, we drive growth and profitability while shaping a better future.
Join us for an exhilarating journey where passion aligns with profit, and your vision becomes a catalyst for transformative growth. With our Silicon Valley-inspired approach, we tailor strategies around your unique vision, focusing on results and ethical integrity.
Let’s work together to turn your venture into a legacy and lead the way in tomorrow’s success stories.
Why we do it
Throughout history, humanity has been defined by the challenges it has overcome. When millions died from disease, we created vaccines. When the planet became too small, we built vehicles to take us around the globe – and beyond it.
Technology has always been our greatest weapon in this fight for a better world. The fearless innovators of the past have constantly pushed us beyond what was previously thought possible. Fire and spear have evolved into solar power and autonomous farming, fueling and feeding an ever-growing population.
Today, humanity faces far greater challenges than ever before. As the climate crisis steadily deepens and global populations are threatened by pandemic disease and political crisis, technological innovations give us hope, and promise to re-define the future.
A future where no loved ones are lost to cancer, where every child has clean drinking water, where communication infrastructure connects even the most remote outposts of our civilization. A future where mega-cities run on purely sustainable energy, where automation helps feed the hungry, where commercial space fleets take us to the stars. A future free of the fear of pandemics.
But as the scale of the challenges increases, the barriers between innovation and progress rise too. Serious projects require exceptional strategies, and we are here to provide them.
FTL is a global strategy firm focused on deep technology. And we believe in technology’s capacity to solve the world’s biggest challenges and advance the dreams of humanity.
First Hand Experience
We have experienced first-hand the challenges in developing new, innovative technologies and bringing them to market. You can trace our history back to one seminal project in Silicon Valley during the mid-1990s.
Rotary Rocket Company paved the way for the global commercial space flight boom. Our team discovered something important when working together on this project: the barriers between innovation and progress are not always scientific possibilities, but often simply the inability to implement them in reality.
This project was the first time we applied our unique approach to removing these barriers. Since then, our team has worked separately on all corners of the planet and across a huge range of disciplines. At FTL, all this experience is now focused on being the catalyst behind the technology companies of the future.
FTL is a deep-tech strategy firm guided by a philosophy of innovation, from the companies we partner with through to the way in which we collaborate. This deep-tech strategy expertise guides us as we advise the world’s most exciting and challenging projects. Our ultimate goal is to improve the lives of millions around the world, by leveraging innovation to overcome humanity’s greatest challenges.
Our Mission
We are Believers. We believe in a prosperous future and making it a reality.
We help to conceive, design, and scale the businesses that will turn a strategic vision into a game-changing reality.
We are technologists, scientists, engineers, and human-centered designers who build to address the world’s most important challenges and opportunities.
We are FTL.
FTL Team
Frederick Giarrusso, Ph.D.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ellika Olga Jackman
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Glen Surles
Director, Finance & Risk Management
Dana Al Salem
Partnership & Regional Development