Stefano Righi

Vice President of Utilities R&D at American Megatrends International LLC

Stefano Righi is Vice President of Global Software, Security Engineering & Services at American Megatrends International LLC (AMI). He has over 30 years of experience in research and development management with special focus on firmware and software technologies and architectures. During his tenure of more than 20 years at AMI he has been responsible for UEFI architecture, Firmware Development Environment, Graphical User Interfaces and Pre-Boot solutions. Mr. Righi has started and is currently leading security operations at AMI. He is representing AMI in the Board of Directors for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Forum, which champions firmware innovation through industry collaboration and the advocacy of a standardized interface that simplifies and secures platform initialization and firmware bootstrap operations. Mr. Righi holds a degree in electronics engineering from the University of Bologna in Italy