As a Manging Director of H-ON srl, a TUV Rheinlnd company, I develop and execute business strategies to achieve short and long-term goals. H-ON is a strategic asset and reference for the cyber security, functional safety and Explosive Atmosphere for TUV Rheinland in Italy.

I lead the marketing department and drive new services introduction for H-ON Consulting, for the safety and reliability of industrial products/plants. I have more than 20 years of experience in industrial automation related to steel, oil & gas and process industries dealing with PLC, HMI and SCADA safety software design and development. I spent my career operating and managing industrial conformity services worldwide, according to several international standards. I hold a Ph.D degree in Electronic Engineering (University of Florence, Italy) and a Master in industrial automation systems (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow). I'm also a Certified Functional Safety Engineer according to IEC 61508.

Recent developments in automatic control systems capable of managing not only the routine process, but also any critical conditions, are the result of a growing need to entrust almost exclusively the control of industrial processes or production machinery to automated systems, which consequently become increasingly complex and multifaceted. In addition to being a legal requirement, functional safety has become a need to guarantee actual control also and more importantly when straightforward automation fails, hence compromising safety.

BYHON is a certification body that provides control and conformity certification of products according to the international standard IEC 61508: 2010 Parts 1-7 for Functional Safety. BYHON is an ANSI -Accredited Product Certification Body – Accreditation #8914.As Certification Director, I'm responsible of developing certification requirements and allowing certificates decision.

Management of a team of engineers for the analysis, design and implementation of safety related instrumental systems.

Software Developer for industrial automation (PLC,SCADA and HMI), mainly for machines in the textile, food, pharmaceutical and Power and water sectors.