Stefano Maffulli is a seasoned marketing and business development strategist with a deep passion for free/libre open source principles and online communities. With a focus on real-time communication across diverse cultures, Stefano excels as a liaison between end users and development, leveraging crowds for business success. His interests span mobile technologies, marketing, cloud computing, product development, and international community management. Stefano's specialties lie in online community management, strategic analysis, marketing, Free Software & Open Source advocacy, business strategy, and corporate (micro)blogging. His educational background includes studies at Liceo Scientifico 'E. Onorato' Lucera, an Executive MBA from MIP Politecnico di Milano, and a BA from Università degli Studi di Firenze. Stefano has held key roles at various prominent organizations, including Senior Director Of Digital Marketing And Community at Scality, Marketing Director, Cloud And Community at Dreamhost, as well as positions at Openstack, Rackspace, Freedombox Foundation, Twitter, Funambol, Mediatria, Free Software Foundation Europe, Madeinlinux, and Jrc Joint Research Centre Ispra.