I was born and raised in L'Aquila, a small Italian town in the Abruzzo region with roughly 60,000 residents and 110,000 sheep.

I majored in classical humanities in high school and electronic engineering in college.

I spent the rest of my quiet, small-town life cultivating personal interests ranging from playing the jazz saxophone to practicing kung fu, reading ancient Greek philosophers' works, and studying the Chinese language.

I didn’t wait for graduation day to realize that being an engineer wasn’t the best path to quench my thirst for meaning and adventure.

As soon as I graduated, I moved to Milan to earn a master's degree in business.

From there, in 2004, I eagerly chased the action where everything was happening: China.

The first city I landed in was Shenzhen, in southern China, where I worked for a well-known investment consultancy.

I stayed there for a little more than a year and consulted a dozen multinationals on what to make of the “Open for Business” sign that China put on its front lawn during those years.

I saw innumerable banana fields turned into factories and old neighborhoods into multifunctional complexes.

To this day, my days in Shenzhen are among the most incredible times of my life.

In 2006, a London FTSE-listed multinational offered me the opportunity to relocate to Hangzhou, in eastern China, to lead their China manufacturing and procurement operations.

Would I go someplace new to confront even bigger challenges? Of course.

I run their operations in China for a little more than two years during which I set up three manufacturing facilities and a global procurement office.

By the end of 2008, I decided it was time to create something of my own.

In 2008, I decided to move to Shanghai and start my own business, the first of many that have followed.

My first business was in renewable energy, one of the most timely and successful decisions I ever made.

In the decade that followed, I started, owned, and managed several energy, environment, and commodities businesses, with alternate results.

Some scaled up to be multinationals with generous exits; others were less successful but eventually left me with valuable lessons.

During those years, I have traveled and done business in five continents, dozens of countries, and hundreds of cities, engaging with people of all cultures and personalities, working alongside and/or advising Fortune 500 companies as well as Government agencies.

In 2017, I co-founded Alleans Renewables, a renewable energy development and investment venture based in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London.

By the time I left in 2023, I had built it into a successful multinational renewable energy investment group with over 2.5 GW of assets under development across Europe and the USA, managing—through its different vehicles—capital invested by several Fortune 500 companies, including one of the world’s most prominent infrastructure banks and a Chinese central State Owned Enterprise.

In the meantime, in 2022, after spending 18 years in China, I also decided to seek fresh adventures and move back to Europe.

I opted for Milan, Italy, where I live now (at least for the time being.)

As of late 2023, Alleans had been the adventure of a lifetime—one of several I lived through (adventures, not lifetimes :) but my heart wasn't there anymore.

I wasn’t ready to leave new adventures behind. In fact, I realized that living an intentional, adventurous life of constant renewal is not just a recurring theme on my canvas...

It is my canvas.

Accordingly, I left my posts and the path better known to pursue—yet once more—new and exciting opportunities to create something meaningful in business and the arts.

Jam Nation is the first such venture, the first app of its kind entirely designed to solve one problem every passionate musician, music school student, or aspiring artist has: to conveniently meet musicians of similar talent and coordinate to play and practice together. Read more about Jam Nation here.