Fabrizio Capobianco

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Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, the company behind the Funambol mobile open source project. He is a highly regarded expert on open source software as it applies to the consumer mobile email market. He writes a regular blog called Mobile Open Source, which was voted among the 20 best in wireless by FierceWireless readers. He has forged new paths in open source licensing by co-authoring the Honest Public License (HPL), which closes the "ASP loophole" and differentiates between distribution of software and distribution of software as a service.

American Venture Magazine put Fabrizio on its top "40 under 40" list in 2007, and in 2006 he was recognized by Mobile Village readers for being a consumer email visionary.

Fabrizio is a serial entrepreneur. He founded the first Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti, in 1994 and Stigma Online, developer of an information portal product with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. He is a veteran executive from Reuters and Tibco and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pavia [1] in Italy.