Rupert Westenthaler is co-founder of Redlink GmbH, Researcher at Salzburg Research and contributor to Apache Stanbol as well as some other Apache projects. Rupert is a Software Engineer specialized on applied research. His main interests are Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Semantic Web and Linked Data. In recent years he worked in several large-scale European research projects in those areas. He has large experience on collaborative open source development, actively cooperating with different organizations.