Roberto Ostinelli (left), Leandro Agrò (center), David Orban (right)

Leandro Agrò, aka leeander

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Product Behaviour Designer (Apple Design Project ‘97), Usability Expert, Manager & Entrepreneur already experienced in managing a VC covered company (2000/2003), Leandro is a serial innovator with experience about Intelligent Emotional software (virtual assistants), web applications, hardware related to the medical field (world first computer UI without keyboard or mouse), eye-tracking based multimodal UI (revolutionary devices and interaction techniques supporting people with heavy disabilities). Leandro designed more or less every kind of GUI, including concepts and prototypes for mobile phones and handhelds. Leandro think visually and loves prototyping!

Academics: Leandro is a visiting professor in Domus Academy; The founder the community IDEARIUM.org; Co-ideator and producer of “Frontiers of Interaction Conference.

Professional profile: LinkedIn profile for Leandro Agrò
Personal website: leeander.com

 

Roberto Ostinelli

Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Musician, photographer, programmer and MBA class of 1997, Roberto has been auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers to learn the deep accounting mechanisms that regulate companies. He has then become marketing manager of the broadband ISP company chello in Belgium, dealing with the ideation and launch of advertising campaigns, market analysis, and product definition. His interests have then moved towards the technical aspects of the various technologies needed to operate an IT business, becoming system integrator for chello in France. It was 2002 when he started his own software company e-undertown, aimed at providing integrated internet systems targeted for networks (gas, water and tlc).

Before joining OpenSpime, Roberto has been Director of a LAB Technologies Division dealing with research, development and integration of the multiple technologies behind the creation of intelligent virtual assistants. His functions included exploring Artificial Intelligence with a particular attention to humanlike emotional software models, building complex and scalable software architectures, and integrating existing top-of-the-art technologies such as semantic engines and voice software.

Professional profile: LinkedIn profile for Roberto Ostinelli
Personal website: ostinelli.net

 

David Orban

Founder & Chief Evangelist
David has over twenty years of experience in the field of high technology, where he developed a broad experience. He has a deep understanding of the needs and mechanics of both product marketing, sales development, localization, and globalization. Frequent speaker and commentator on issues of the acceleration of technological change, and its social impacts. Expert of the concept of the Technological Singularity, and its implications for the world we live in.

Professional profile: LinkedIn profile for David Orban
Personal website: davidorban.com

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Fabrizio Capobianco (Redwood City, USA)

Member of the Board of Advisors
Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, the #1 mobile open source project and provider of cloud syncing for two billion phones. During his spare time, Fabrizio is a board member of the Mind The Bridge Foundation, trying to create a Silicon Valley in Italy. Fabrizio has been recognized as a top “40 under 40″ high tech leader by American Venture and he writes a blog that was voted among the 20 best in the wireless industry by FierceWireless
Personal website

Giuseppe Taibi (Boston, USA)

Member of the Board of Directors
An advisor for the Italy/America Chamber of Commerce & Trade of New England, Giuseppe was a Visiting Scholar at Boston University, has taught his own course on Applied Innovation in Mobile Computing at Harvard University Extension School. He holds a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Palermo with a thesis in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Signal Processing.
Personal website

Alex Papanastassiou (Bruxelles, Belgium)

Member of the Board of Advisors
Business adviser & facilitator – passionate about business quests – often operating on the frontier between business and technology. Alex was the Ceo of Maasneotech a Sensor’s Factory in Belgium.
Personal website

Joi Ito (Kyoto, Japan)

Member of the Board of Advisors
Ito has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. He maintains a blog, a wiki and contributes to the Tokyo Metroblogging. Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons. Ito was listed by Time Magazine as a member of the “Cyber-Elite” in 1997 and was also named by Businessweek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008.
Personal website

Carlo Maria Medaglia (Rome, Italy)

Member of the Board of Advisors
Carlo Maria Medaglia is the Coordinator of the RFID Lab of “Sapienza”, University of Rome. 
Since 1999, Mr. Medaglia has been working at several international research institutions around the world as NASA, ESA, NOAA, etc. He is a full professor at Mass Communication / Computer Sciences Department of University of Rome.
RFID Lab website