Born in 1950 in Bergamo, Italy.

High School degree, Liceo Scientifico,  Bergamo, 1969.

University Degree in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano,  1974.

First professional experiences with SELLA, an Italian company specialized in the design and manufacture of high pressure valves for chemical, petrochemical and nuclear applications, as Chief of the Design Dept.

From 1977 with TECHINT Group of companies.

For three years in Latin America with local TECHINT Engineering as well as Steelmaking companies, in teams dedicated to the provision of technical assistance  - from the feasibility study to the project implementation up to the commissioning and  the start-up of new industrial plants.

For one and a half  year Plant Mgr and then Business Development Mgr of coil coated products with SIDERCOLOR, Argentina, now part of Ternium.

In the eighties, with TECHINT of Italy (Engineering and Contracting),  first as Project Engineer, then Proposal Mgr and  Project Mgr  for the development of several different projects all around the world, most of them carried on in the frame of International Consortia developed with first class Partners like SMS of Germany, VAI of Austria and so on.

In the nineties, in  charge of Business Development and then as Sales & Marketing Director of the Process Lines BU, started on the basis of an original idea of his own, which resulted in a new successful  product/technology/BU of Techint Technologies, mainly active in West and East Europe, China and South East Asia, Latin America.

Since 2001, as Director of Purchasing and Logistics of TECHINT TECHNOLOGIES and then of TENOVA, a fast growing sub-holding of TECHINT which includes several divisions active in the design and supply of machinery, plants and systems for the Iron & Steel and the Metallurgical Industry as well as for the Mining Industry.

From 2009 he is Strategic Consultant (Strategic Marketing, Business Development, Contracting) dealing  with several Engineering and Contracting Companies mainly involved in the business of Metals, Power, Oil&Gas, such as  PRISMA IMPIANTI, DG IMPIANTI INDUSTRIALI, ATB RIVA CALZONI, TAMINI, etc.

From 2011 to 2012, he was Vice-President in charge of  Business Development for ATB RIVA CALZONI and the other industrial companies of TROMBINI Group.

For 6 years (2000-2005), he has been also teacher  within the Master in  Engineering and Contracting c/o MIP, Politecnico di Milano.