Max Lanfranconi
Massimo Lanfranconi, known as Max, has been involved in IT since the early 80's. He started working with Java technology soon after attending the very first one held in 1996. He had been scouting out new technologies for the research and development team of the Information Technology department of a bank in Italy, Banca Popolare di Bergamo. By 1998, Max had joined Sun Microsystems Italy, and in 2001 he moved to a new Sun position in the United States where he was one of the community managers for Openoffice.org He also spent three years in Market Development and eventually became Marketing Manager of the JCP PMO.