Francisco Webber

Matrixware, Austria

Francisco de Sousa Webber is the founder and CEO of Matrixware Information Services GmbH, a provider of innovative patent retrieval solutions.

Webber took an interest in information technology as a medical student specialising in genetics and serology at the University of Vienna. He participated in various research projects at the Vienna Serological Institute and was responsible for organising Austria’s dialysis register database and creating a patient documentation system for the university clinic.

In the mid-1990s, he worked with Konrad Becker to found Vienna’s Institute for New Culture Technologies and Public Netbase – at that time Austria’s only free public-access Internet server – thus establishing an international competence platform for the critical use of information and communications technologies.

He also served as technical director and partner at Uptime, where he was responsible for information management, software development and UNIX hosting.