After graduating from the University of Bologna in 1969 with a degree in chemical engineering, in 1971 he began his career in the pharmaceutical industry. In 1973 he joined the Italian branch of the chemical and pharmaceutical multinational Boehringer Ingelheim, holding a number of managerial positions in Italy and abroad before serving as country manager for Italy between 1992 and 1999.
Subsequently, from 2000 to 2008, he was the chief executive officer of the Boehringer Ingelheim Group’s Pharma Marketing and Sales, which operates worldwide, and in 2004 also assumed the role of chairman of the related executive committee.
In 2009 he left the Boehringer Ingelheim Group to work as a consultant in the pharmaceutical field.
An Official of the Italian Republic, he has held offices in Italian and foreign associations in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Among other positions, he has served as president of the AESGP and the ANIFA (respectively, the European and Italian associations of the self-medication industry) and as a member of Federchimica’s board of governors and Farmindustria’s executive committee, as well as of the G10 of the European Commission in Brussels.
He has been a Director of Enel since May 2011.
