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.

Jono Bacon

Community Advisory Alumni

Jono Bacon

Community Advisory Alumni

Alexandra Stratigos

Executive Assistant & Member Success

Alexandra Stratigos

Executive Assistant & Member Success

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.

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.

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.

Nikolay Ganev

System Engineer

Nikolay Ganev

System Engineer

Motivated and proactive system engineer, looking after all web properties and automated Foundation processes, from code license validation to project onboarding and daily support duties; Hubspot Certified consultant (Sales, Marketing and Design certifications), with a strong background in social media.

Peter Monks

VP of Program Development

Peter Monks

VP of Program Development

Since joining in June 2016, Peter has had responsibility for the technology strategy of the Foundation, with a particular emphasis on ensuring the successful operation of the programs, projects and working groups hosted by the Foundation. Prior to joining, Peter came from a strong content, collaboration, open source, and SaaS background, having worked in one or more of those fields since 2000. Initially a software engineer and technical consultant, Peter transitioned to product management in 2006, and since 2010 has focused almost exclusively on platforms, with a particular specialty in open developer platforms. He was a voting member of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee, and continues to champion open source, open standards, and open governance as the ultimate development model for modern software companies.

Rob Underwood

Program Development and Strategy Advisor

Rob Underwood

Program Development and Strategy Advisor

Rob Underwood works with the foundation’s leadership on program development and market strategy. 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. An independent consultant with TTM Advisors, Rob has previously been both an Executive Director and a Chief Technology Officer. Rob also did a 13 year stint in management consulting, first with KPMG/BearingPoint from 2000 to 2006, and then with Deloitte Consulting as a senior manager in their corporate strategy practice from 2006 to 2013.

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