Our Company
Xapio, Inc. was founded in 2006 to bring to market research and technology developed at the University of Utah.
The Xapio project was started after interacting with users and IT managers in several vertical industries, and identifying widespread problems and unmet needs in secure information management and sharing.
» How can we email large files?
» How can we manage the explosion of email server storage?
» How can we support users with secure email?
» How can they track receipt of their documents?
» How can all this be done with enterprise email as usual?
Our Team
Stefano Foresti - Founder & President
Stefano started the Xapio project at the University of Utah, and founded Xapio Inc. in 2006. Stefano has been involved in information technology for over 20 years. He co-founded the CROMDI, a Utah State Center of Excellence in information design, bringing together an interdisciplinary team in Computing, Architecture, Psychology, Medicine, Communication, and Business. As Director of CROMDI, he led the development and commercialization of data intensive user interfaces, including the new generation display for the Operating Room licensed by GE Medical, and VisAlert, a visual correlation tool for network security, developed for the US Intelligence Community. Stefano was a founding team member and Business Development Executive of the Italian portal Kataweb.com, and also consulted on internet strategy for international groups such as Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, Telecom Italia, and SEAT Yellow Pages. Xapio is the third company that he co-founded, including Medvis, which sold the OR display to GE Medical.Back to top »
Peggy Quinlivan - Director of Sales
Peggy is in charge of sales, seeking and maintaining relationships with customers, defining the sales strategy. She is also acting as the chief of operations, by managing the relationship between the development team and the customers. Prior to joining Xapio in 2006, she had over 20 years experience in the software industry as a senior programmer analyst, software systems designer, and project team leader, including 6 years at Questar, and other companies notably American Express. For the last 6 years Peggy has performed business development for technology start ups, managing strategy, pricing, marketing, negotiations, and sales.Back to top »
Paolo Lamponi - Director of Product Development
Paolo is product chief, including coordination of software developers, investigating products on the market, integration and deployment, and aid of software development. He is involved with customer interactions and support, testing, documentation and marketing material. Paolo joined the Xapio project at the University of Utah in 2006 as Research Associate, and subsequently joined the company. Prior to Xapio, Paolo worked as Software Developer and Project Manager of the Xapio technology. Previously at Novell, Inc. for over 10 years, Paolo's responsibilities included software project development and internationalization, managing teams of 12 software engineers. Notably, Paolo supported Novell's transition to an open source development model. Paolo's background and research interests include numerical analysis, multi-criteria decision making, risk management, and innovative techniques for the solution of computationally intractable problems.Back to top »
Luke Stebbing - Software Architect
Luke is the chief developer, responsible for the architecture of the software, prototyping, framework development, delegation of components to other developers and consultants, and testing. Luke has been involved in the Xapio project from its birth, first as a student, and then as Research Assistant at CROMDI University of Utah, where he also performed research on event relevance algorithms and visualization. He has extensive research experience in programming language design, interaction design, and knowledge representation. He received a B.S. in Mathematics, University of Utah in 2004.Back to top »