Organization, Planning and Project Development Directorate
Since 1 February 2018 Director of Organization, Planning and Project Development Directorate at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni.
In this position he coordinates strategic planning activities as well as the management of production, he manages relations with clients and develops operational agreements, he coordinates project management activities, with roughly 100 researchers involved, teamed in four Activity Areas the Directorate runs projects in (Telecommunications: Network and Spectrum; Digital Services; Data Analysis; Cybersecurity).
Furthermore, he runs external communications, and organises conventions, seminars and dissemination activities of the Fondatione Boroni’s achievements.
Born on 24 May 1972 in Prato, Italy.
In 1998 he obtained a degree in Information Science at the University of Florence presenting a research thesis on “A new data structure for partial match queries”.
After cooperating with the Italian Research Centre for Telecommunications (CSELT – Centro Studi e Laboratori di Telecomunicazioni) in Turin, from 2000 to 2009, he was employed by Infogroup SPA in Florence, a company operating in the ICT area of the Intesa Sanpaolo group – now Engineering. He worked there as a software engineer and IT system architect as well as a Project Manager on complex software development projects.
From 2009 to 2014 he was Councillor of the Province of Prato with management responsibilities over Simplification, Innovation and Information System, Territory Government, Budget.
From April 2014 to February 2018 he was Head of the Staff of the Undersecretary of State for Communications, where he was involved in the shaping and implementation of Italian Ultrawide Broadband Strategy, in the conception of WiFi Italia project, in the RAI TV licence fee reform, the reorganisation of Radio and TV radio-frequencies, and in the development of 5G.
In this position he was representative of the Ministry of Economic Development (now MInistry of Enterprises and Made in Italy), in the Steering Committees of AgID and Infratel, and – as Chairman – of the Steering and Monitoring Committee of SINFI (National Federated Information System of Infrastructures above and below ground).