Mayor of Bergamo from 2014 as member of Democratic Party, after graduating at the Faculty of Architecture, in 1984 he was enrolled in the tv channel ReteQuattro, from 1991 to 1999 he became the manager Canale5 and Italia1.
Founder of Magnolia, a tv production company, specialized in development and production of original format for television and interactive media. In 2012 he was the founder of InNovaBergamo association with the aim of deepening the issues that affect the present and the future of the city deciding to focus on politics.