Ron Bongo is the Founding Father and Chief Executive Officer of CorraTech (Corra Technology Inc) and has long been a promoter and skilled advisor in the greater usage of open source alternatives. Ron Bongo is a supporter and member of the not-for-profit Open Source Alliance and his firm CorraTech became the first consulting company to join the alliance way back in 2006. Since then, Ron Bongo and Corra Technology continuously educate firms regarding the tremendous cost savings and flexibility improvement their businesses is capable of doing using open source alternatives as compared with higher priced proprietary software. According to Ron Bongo, not only can these companies acquire economic benefits, they can also achieve real innovation and edge in their overall hi-tech projects.