In 1996, after more than 10 years in academia and hospital, he started in Pharmaceutical companies where he worked in all phases of Clinical Development and in different therapeutic areas. He had worked in Clinical research department in Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, and in GSK, before started on 2011 in Italfarmaco where he is the director of Clinical R&D and from September 2016 the Vicepresident Research & Development of the Italfarmaco group. Leading the Research and Development department he is responsible for the research and development pipeline of the Italfarmaco Group up to market in different therapeutic areas such as Rare Diseases, Oncology, Muscle and Neuro Degeneration, Women Health and Cardiovascular.