Innovation strategist with extensive personal network in major US Universities, such as the University of California at Berkeley, MIT and Stanford University. Over 15 years of strategy consulting, technology scouting and action research experience gained through various international projects done with business, government and academic institutions such as ALESSI, Bank 121, the Catholic University of Milan, ENI Group, Euramerica Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Mediaset, Siemens ICN, Telecom Italia, Wella, the US Department of Commerce and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Former Research Associate at Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), University of California at Berkeley, where in the late 90s he pioneered interdisciplinary studies on Web-driven emerging business models in various industries.