Antonio is Kauffman Fellow at Center for Venture Education, Palo Alto (CA), where his interest are in financing innovation at State level. The Kauffman Fellows faculty brings together leading venture capital investors, along with entrepreneurs, limited partners, engineering and science thought-leaders, corporate chiefs, and policy experts from academia and government. He is co-founder and CEO of Advanced Materials GmbH/Srl, an innovative company who is leader in air purifying technologies. A passionate storyteller, he has developed successful marketing and communications campaings, mainly designed to bring technology closer to people. In 2010 he won the prize as Best Project for the Promotion of Innovation at Shanghai World Expo. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation where he developed the program “i2012 - Strategies for Innovation”, and co-developed the program “High Tech Fund” to finance innovation in South Italy through Venture Capital.He was Director at the Italian Agency for the Promotion of the Technologies for Innovation. In this role, he developed the “Italy for Innovators” project, to promote innovative Italian companies, and with the Chinese Government, he co-founded the China Italy Technology Transfer Center, acting as co-Chairman of the China Italy Innovation Forum. As an individual, he is a writer, specializing in scientific and economic divulgation. He is a regular contributor of national newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad since 1992.