Robert Firpo-Cappiello (@RobFirpCapp) is a Folio-award-winning journalist who advises media brands, technology companies, and foundations on editorial and publishing strategy for the AI era. (Email: robertfirpocappiello@gmail.com)

Robert served as editor-in-chief at Hospitality Technology (2020-2026) and at Budget Travel (2013-2020, including 100+ television appearances as a travel expert), and his writing has appeared in Budget Travel, Hospitality Technology, Crain’s New York Business, Lonely Planet, Men’s Journal, Brain & Life, Neurology Today, AGD Impact, Diabetes Focus, Healthy Living, Natural Health, Remedy, The Ladders, Prevention, Every Day With Rachael Ray, and many other publications.

As an author, Robert is represented by Jill Marr at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. His short fiction and creative writing appears in Roi Fainéant Press and Cowboy Jamboree Press, and he regularly performs his short stories, novellas, and songs at NYC venues including Drops In the Vase Drop-In Salon, KGB Bar’s Easy Paradise, Freddy’s Bar and Backroom, Rockwood Music Hall (now shuttered), St Lou Fringe, Dixon Place, Irvington Theater’s Stage Door Reading Series and Solo Series on YouTube, RiverArts Music Tour, Spark Theatre Festival NYC, Urban Stages, Bad Theater Fest, and The Duplex. Robert made his show-business debut at the age of five on WOR-TV’s Romper Room.