I started by enrolling in a degree course in Electronic Engineering in Trieste, but meeting a heart surgeon quickly directed me to bioengineering. So I decided to move to Milan and study Biomedical Engineering at the Politecnico, where a few years later I graduated in Medical Informatics with Prof. Francesco Pinciroli, with whom I then continued to collaborate as a researcher dealing with health information systems, biolanguages and bioarchives.

Later on I obtained the title of PhD in Bioengineering under the supervision of Prof. Emanuela Galli, who taught me, among other things, to present the results of scientific research in the most effective way possible in national and international contexts. During the years of my doctorate I had the opportunity to collaborate with various entities outside the Politecnico, especially in the clinical field, and to work closely with patients. That was a fundamental experience for my subsequent career because it made me understand what my true calling was. From this point of view, working with the Italian Auxological Institute was particularly satisfying because it gave me the opportunity to apply my research on biomechanical systems not only to patients but also to high-level athletes.

One day, out of serendipity, a friend – also a graduate from the Politecnico – contacted me and asked me to work on a very interesting business project in the nutrigenetics sector. The project, born from an idea of Prof. Paolo Gasparini, envisaged exploiting the genetic information usually used to diagnose potential diseases and concerning the way we metabolize foods to improve people's life, developing diets and other customized solutions based on accurate genetic testing.

I found the idea very fascinating, so I accepted the proposal and came back to Trieste to meet Prof. Gasparini and the rest of the team. Here I discovered a beautiful reality that I did not yet know: the Area Science Park. As part of the Innovation Factory program, the park operated as a real business incubator, selecting the most promising start-ups and offering them logistical and financial support to start the business and perform their first tests. Our project was judged promising and in 2009, after a year of hard work, we founded g&life. In the meantime, we had also participated in several international events, including Webit in Barcelona, where we pitched with great success our idea in front of an international audience.

At that time as a founding partner, I mainly dealt with the operational side, until in 2011 an important investment fund decided to intervene in the company's capital, transforming it into a joint stock company and asking me to take on the position of president and CEO: a proposal that I immediately accepted with great enthusiasm. In those years we have worked with companies of all types, from insurance companies to pharmaceutical companies, in Italy and abroad, offering our know-how and our technology from a b2b perspective.

Subsequently, the majority of g&life was acquired by the BioValley Investments group, founded by the electronic engineer Diego Bravar and very active in the biomedical, biotechnology and bioinformatics sectors. Thanks to them we have also begun to probe the b2c market for the first time. We have created the Generame brand and, based on the experience gained alongside our partners, we have also begun to create consumer products – mainly food supplements and cosmetics – which are giving us a lot of satisfaction.

From September 2020 I started collaborating with the Department for digital transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as an expert consultant, with the idea of dedicating at least one year of my life to serve the community and to contribute to the transformation of the country with my skills and experience.