A graduate in economics and commerce (1987) of the University of Naples, he completed his studies in the United States, earning at first a master's degree in management at Brooklyn Polytechnic University and later attending the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
He began his career by working in the marketing division of Laben (Finmeccanica Group) and then that of Procter & Gamble Italia; in 1990 he joined the Italian office of Booz Allen Hamilton (now named Booz & Company Italia), a management and technology consulting firm, where he was appointed partner and vice-president in 1998.
Within this office he was in charge of developing activities in the fields of telecommunications, media, and aerospace, while also gaining experience in Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East. Up to June 2011, he was chief executive officer of Booz & Company Italia and also carried out assignments with an international scope.
Since July 2011 he is a founding partner of WIMW (Why Italy Matters to the World), a New York based organization aimed at fostering the relations between the Italian small-medium enterprises and the US investors.
From November 2001 to April 2006 he served on the committee for surface digital television instituted by the Communications Ministry and from July 2002 to September 2006 was director of the Italian Centre for Aerospace Research. He has been a director of Enel from May 2002 and held the same office at Data Service (now B.E.E. Team) from May 2007 to October 2008.
