My entire career has been dedicated to expanding my competence across different functional areas and industrial sectors, leveraging my love for learning and a strong dose of courage and entrepreneurship. I have never refrained from taking over complex turnaround and implementation projects, since I strongly believe that resilient managers can only emerge from situations where hands-on experience can be gained. I have created several teams and I am happy to say that many of their members have enjoyed success, in their later professional experiences.I started by gaining a degree in Economics & Finance with honours and leveraged my dissertation to win a scholarship that allowed me to attend Columbia Business School. After my MBA, I decided to join McKinsey, where I gained both a strong vertical experience in the insurance and banking industries and a solid experience in Operations and IT topics. This culminated in launching the Italian Branch of the then Business Technology Office of McKinsey, an incredibly successful venture.In the following years, I have pursued a career in Insurance, where I have gained a truly 360° experience, covering all key Lines of Business and Functional Areas. I have been exposed both to business-building and turnaround situations, gaining invaluable experience in sometimes complex situations.Pushed by a desire to live more in my adoptive town, I have chosen to join Alitalia, embarking in one of the most challenging turnaround situations that Italy offered, further complicated by the post-2008 depression. There, I have had the opportunity to further push my professional boundaries, turning my interest in aviation into a profession.I have finally joined IBM, enticed by the challenge of rebuilding its Financial Services Sector and fulfilling and old desire of mine: re-creating a business. Overall, I have enjoyed significant success and this experience opened the opportunity to go back to Allianz, my Alma Mater in the Insurance sector.In Allianz Technology, I am bringing together all that I have learned so far, in high tech (e.g., how to design and deliver a product, etc.) and insurance. Here, again, I am heavily engaged into both turning around existing offerings and developing new ones.Recently, I have become a Business Angel, helping start-ups as “Co-COO” and have launched a seminar on „Managing IT as a business, in the modern corporate environment”.What next? Frankly, I do not know. What I know is that I will continue to use my innate curiosity to pursue new challenges.