Emmanuel Darras is CEO and Co-Founder of Kestra, an open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure, and business workflows for over 30,000 organizations worldwide including Apple, JPMorgan Chase, and Toyota.

Emmanuel co-founded Ankama in 2001, a global video game company best known for Dofus, which attracted hundreds of millions of players. Under his leadership, Ankama grew to 500 employees over a decade while maintaining profitability.

Emmanuel holds a degree in Technologies de l'information from IMT Nord Europe. He is a serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building and scaling successful businesses in competitive markets.

Since founding Kestra in 2021 with CTO Ludovic Dehon, the company has raised $36 million total funding and grown enterprise revenue 25x in 18 months. Kestra executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025, up 20x year over year.

Kestra's platform has achieved over 26,000 GitHub stars and is trusted by Fortune 500 companies to orchestrate mission-critical workflows. The company is positioned to become the global standard for workflow orchestration in the AI era.