Executive Team

Giuseppe Staffaroni

A technology industry veteran with more than 25 years of European, U.S., and International experience, Staffaroni has an extensive background in marketing, product strategy, technology development, and general management. Prior to taking the lead at Promptu, Staffaroni spent nearly 15 years at LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) where he served as Executive Vice President heading LSI's Consumer Products Group, a business unit providing leading-edge solutions for the rapidly expanding consumer electronics market. In this role, he oversaw marketing, product and business development, and engineering of LSI Logic's standard products and system-on-a-chip solutions for customers in the broadband access, broadband entertainment, and wireless markets. Prior to LSI Logic, Staffaroni worked in various technology and management positions at Texas Instruments, AT&T Microelectronics, and Zeltron, a unit of Electrolux.

Harry Printz

Printz has more than 12 years of experience in automatic speech recognition and computational linguistics. Before joining Promptu, Printz was manager of Pervasive Conversational Technology at IBM's Watson Research Laboratory. In this role, he managed research for IBM Embedded ViaVoice, the speech recognizer that is currently deployed in Honda Accord automobiles. He also conceived and co-designed the IBM speech chip. Prior to IBM, he worked at the Digital Equipment Corporation's Paris Research Lab and at Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Printz holds a B.A. magna cum laude and an M.A. in physics from Harvard University, a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. He holds nine U.S. patents in the areas of speech recognition, data compression, and statistical modeling.