Team

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director

Gabriele is an open source leader and technologist at heart, having spent more than 10 years building thriving communities and delivering business value through open source. He thrives in working with open source communities to drive disruptive innovation, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm, or a non profit organization.

Gabriele brings a wealth of expertise in executive and technical leadership, ranging from FinTech to enterprise collaboration, and from developer platforms to SaaS ARR business models. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, Gabriele has now built the Symphony Software Foundation from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for Wall Street to accelerate digital transformation, engaging in a new model of open source FinTech innovation. Gabriele is a PMC Member for the Apache Software Foundation and an advisor for Bankex.com. Based in San Francisco but originally from Italy, he’s a proud SSC Napoli supporter, a reggae music connoisseur and a South Park groupie.

Edwin M. Oh

Chief Financial Officer

Edwin M. Oh

Chief Financial Officer

Edwin Oh is co-founder of the Infrastructure Group, a provider of marketing and business services to early stage startups in Silicon Valley. Ed has over 30 years of experience in technology commercialization including as CEO of small public and private companies and startups. Ed has an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford, and S.B. degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from M.I.T. Ed also writes a blog on technology marketing, ThriceAroundtheBlock and is an instructor with the Stanford University Continuing Studies Program.

Maurizio Pillitu

Director of Infrastructure

Maurizio Pillitu

Director of Infrastructure

15+ years of experience in the ICT industry covering different positions: Devops Director, Release Manager, Project and Team Leader, Sales Engineer, Technical Trainer/Speaker, Software Developer/Architect. Passionate about Application Lifecycle Management, with a strong background on release management and deployment automation. Apache Committer and Open Source fan/advocate, always keen on contributing to Open Source projects.

Tosha Ellison

COO

Tosha Ellison

COO

Tosha has spent more than 18 years in financial services and technology working with banks, software companies and start-ups in a wide variety of roles. Leveraging this experience Tosha is driving our Member Success initiative to help our members maximize value from their engagement with FINOS and open source software more generally. Before joining FINOS Tosha co-founded eCo Financial Technology to give banks a new way to source and evaluate software. Prior to that Tosha spent 13 years at Credit Suisse in London and New York where she held a range of technology roles in both Equities and FICC before becoming COO for eFX and then FID eCommerce. Tosha started her career in a Silicon Valley financial technology start-up after earning BAs in Psychology and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley.

James McLeod

Director of Community

James McLeod

James is the Director of Community at FINOS and wholeheartedly believes the transformation of Financial Services can only be fulfilled if Open Source is embraced under the three pillars of Contribution, Consumption and Community.

James has a twenty year career in software engineering having worked for telecommunication startups, the gaming industry, digital streaming platforms and financial services. Prior to joining FINOS James worked at Lloyds Banking Group where he focused on building engineering communities for Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows and other LBG banks. While at Lloyds Banking Group, James also drove the adoption of Inner Source and Open Source partly through the creation of engineering guilds providing in-person and remote educational sessions and large hackathon events. James also spent a number of years consulting on software engineering projects for RBS, NatWest and Barclays.

As a member of the FINOS team, James' ambition is to bring his extensive experience building communities to grow Financial Services into a powerhouse of Open Source. James is a true open source advocate and founded the “React London - Bring Your Own Project” meetup to provide an interactive forum for ReactJS and Javascript developers to come together. In the last two years it has grown to a membership of over 1500 individuals.

You reach James at james@finos.org to find out how you can contribute to the amazing work of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS).

Alexandra Stratigos

Chief of Staff

Alexandra Stratigos

Chief of Staff

Alexandra is a consummate entrepreneur who has spent the last 15+ years of her career diving into the startup world, most recently working on the launch of the Symphony Software Foundation. Joining the foundation shortly after its inception in 2016, she works closely with the Executive Director and is also responsible for creating the foundation’s infrastructure by taking point in Finance, HR & Office Management. Alexandra brings vast operational experience to startups in varying industries such as technology, publishing, training & development, health & fitness, and bitcoin. Her specialized background in executive coaching and training, combined with operations and infrastructure, brings a unique skill set which influences collaboration and stronger performance at all levels of the start-up organization.

Aaron Williamson

General Counsel & Director of Governance

Aaron Williamson

General Counsel & Director of Governance

In addition to managing the Foundation’s legal affairs, Aaron chairs the Foundation’s Open Source Readiness working group, helping members to develop policies that enable productive engagement with open source. Aaron has counseled both commercial software producers and nonprofit foundations on legal issues related to open source software. As counsel for the Software Freedom Law Center, he advised some of the most significant open source software foundations. At IEEE, he advised internal clients on open access and open licensing matters. And as a partner at Tor Ekeland P.C., he advised startups and commercial software companies on establishing open source policies, designing open source business models, and on license compliance.

Aaron Griswold

Marketing Manager

Aaron Griswold

Marketing Manager

Aaron has a performing arts background, coupled with an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia, and experience running technology companies. Before FINOS, Aaron managed web design and development companies, building web sites, apps and marketing campaigns for hundreds of clients. He owned multiple companies in various industries, been a marketing manager for others, and was in the US Army as an infantry paratrooper at the 82nd Airborne Division.

Aitana Myohl

Community Support Specialist

Aitana Myohl

Community Support Specialist

Aitana is an MPA Candidate at Columbia University and she is interning at FINOS as a Community Support Specialist over the summer. Aitana has experience in Investment Banking and Growth Strategy for technology startups. She holds a dual degree in Business and Law from CUNEF at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, and lived in Chile for three years before moving to New York.

Rob Underwood

Director of Programs

Rob Underwood

Director of Programs

Rob Underwood oversees the marketing, development, and operations of FINOS programs. Based in New York and with a background in both corporate strategy and technology, Rob is responsible for identifying and evaluating new FINOS program opportunities in the financial services industry. Rob also advises FINOS regarding the foundation’s strategy and positioning, especially with the NY tech, startup, and venture capital community.

To FINOS Rob brings two decades of experience leading marketing, sales, product, operations, and technology initiatives in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, ranging in size from two-person startups to Fortune 100 corporations. Rob has previously been both a non profit Executive Director and a Chief Technology Officer at Relay Graduate School of Education. Rob also did a 13 year stint in management consulting, first with KPMG/BearingPoint from 2000 to 2006, and then with Deloitte Consulting LLP as a senior manager in their corporate strategy practice from 2006 to 2013.

The FINOS Team

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