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.