Italian, born in Naples in 1943, obtained (1968) a Master in Nuclear Electronic Engineering.
He is Chairman of INTUG, International Telecommunications Users Group, confirmed until 2010 during the General Assembly held on May 9, 2007.

He is also President of ANUIT, the Italian telecommunications professional users association, since 1989, President of ENSA - European New Society Association, based in Paris, President of Istedil SpA, a Company providing testing and control services for materials and tools used in the building industry, based in Rome.

For 21 years he was Professor of Information Systems Organisation - Faculty of Economics at LUISS University in Rome.

From 1989 to 1999 he was Vice President of the Commission on Information and Telecommunication Policies at ICC, Paris

He was also (1978-2000) CIO of Confindustria, the Organisation representing some 130.000 private industrial companies in Italy.
He was appointed by the Italian Government as Director of the Italian Control Room for the Y2K roll-over.

He is the Expert for telecommunication issues of IlSole24ore, the main Italian economic newspaper and a regular speaker in radio and TV emissions