Dr Richard Favero  PhD
Chief Executive Officer
SOPRANO Design

Richard is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the leading Australian mobile messaging and wireless application infrastructure provider SOPRANO Design. Richard has been responsible for the international expansion of SOPRANO Design establishing the European operations in Paris and London. SOPRANO counts as its clients Telstra Corporation, National Australia Bank, Accor Asia Pacific, Transurban, Visa, Ascom and Qantas.

Richard is a leading researcher in the fields of mobile technology, software engineering and speech recognition technology. Continuing his commitment to Australian technology research and development, Richard and SOPRANO are actively engaged with the research community supporting research projects at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney.

Richard provides high level strategic consulting services for technology adoption, corporate impacts of technology to blue chip Australian companies and commercialisation services to early stage technology companies. 

Richard is a director and early investor of several technology companies spanning financial services, software and biotechnology.

Prior to founding SOPRANO, Richard worked as a technical project manager and team leader at Telstra Corporation. Before joining Telstra Corporation, Richard was a software engineer at Gestetner Lasers.

Richard has provided consulting services to BHP, National Australia Bank, SingTel, Optus, Alcatel, Visa Europe, Hewlett Packard, and Invensys.

Richard completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of Sydney in speech technology and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) Honours 1 at the University of New South Wales.

Contact info:

Phone (02) 9900 2200

Soprano Design Pty Ltd
Level 11, 132 Arthur St
North Sydney NSW 2060

www.soprano.com.au