Gabriele ColumbroExecutive Director at FINOSSpeaker
Profile
Gabriele (Gab) Columbro is an open source executive and technologist at heart. He has recently won the Tech Leadership Award at FinTech Futures USA Banking Tech Awards. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation FINOS from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. In 2022, Gab was named General Manager of the newly founded Linux Foundation Europe to oversee the growth of open source across the continent. Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups.