Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi

Founder, President and CEO, Chorus Call, Inc.

Giorgio Coraluppi was born in L’Aquila, the capital of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. He pursued his studies in Milano, where he received a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1958. Upon earning his doctorate, Dr. Coraluppi remained at the Politecnico di Milano as a research assistant in the Istituto di Fisica Tecnica. He then served in the Italian Air Force as a Technical Officer for a period of eighteen months.

In 1961 Dr. Coraluppi joined the Electronic Research Laboratory of Olivetti, where he worked in circuit development and in numerical control of machine tools. During the same period, he held a teaching position at the Politecnico di Milano.

In 1964, Dr. Coraluppi and his wife moved to the United States. He accepted a position in the Space-Defense Division of the American Optical Company in Pittsburgh, PA. Initially, he served as Senior Project Engineer for a special purpose digital computer controlling the NASA-Lewis Flight Simulator. He assumed design and project engineering responsibilities for a satellite attitude simulator, which was installed at the NASA-Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. Later, he became Senior Project Engineer of a filmed data acquisition system. In June 1967, Dr. Coraluppi engaged full-time in research projects at Carnegie-Mellon University.

In 1968, Dr. Coraluppi founded Compunetics, Inc. which grew steadily and eventually spun off two sister Companies: Compunetix, Inc. and Chorus Call, Inc. The companies have thrived for 40 years, on not just the desire to meet challenges, to innovate and create new products and technological directions, but to do so while maintaining its corporate integrity and independence, and rewarding employees by promoting their intellectual and professional growth, and making them collectively the companies’ largest stockholder.

At Compunetics, printed circuit boards are being developed now for microprocessor chip technologies that are so fast that they are nearing the limits of physical possibilities. In communications, the world maintains its ever-quickening pace of coming together virtually, across continents and oceans, instantly and without physical limitations. Every day Compunetix enables people to see and hear each other, working and communicating in ways that were impossible just a few years ago. Compunetix today is developing projects, some of which will be launched in the very near future that will enable audio and video communication that is startling in its richness and capability. And Chorus Call will be there to deliver these communications to unprecedented numbers of users.

Currently, Dr. Coraluppi’s major research interests are in the areas of number theory and complex information processing systems. He has won acclaim for his dedication to research and development, corporate financial stability and maintaining a culture of intellectual stimulation for his employees. He was awarded TeleSpan’s Pace Award designed to honor teleconferencing professionals making more than a decade of contributions to the industry.

Dr. Coraluppi is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Technology Council. Also, through Compunetix, he has been supportive of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, The Technology Collaborative and some start-up companies in the Pittsburgh area.

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