After a Baccalaureate in Literature and History at the Saint-Paul Jesuit boarding school in Belgium, Francis spent a year with a bank manager's family in British Columbia, Canada, where he studied journalism as a major. He carried out his higher education with a Bachelor's degree in industrial design at the Institut Saint Luc Higher Education in Arts in Liège, Belgium, and earned a Masters of Arts from the university of Kent, UK. During his studies, he worked as an interpreter.

Francis worked as a freelance interior designer and relocated to Milan, Italy, to work as a web developer before being awarded the first prize in the discontinued Shonan Design competition. He later made a career change towards the watch-making industry to patent and get his first invention produced. During his 8 years in Italy, Francis also worked as a voice-over artist, wrote a few articles for a collaborative blog renamed Racialicious, and trained as a goldsmith at the Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana.

In October 2007, he relocated to Switzerland to get closer to the watch-making industry.

Francis is now 37 years old.
You can contact him for more information at francis.jacquerye [at] fejack [dot] net.