He arrived as Director of Marketing at the Rinaldi brothers Importers, a company belonging to the Group Buton Bologna, two years later, following the purchase of the brand Buton by a British multinational, revealed the company was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a role that he still holds.

In 1999 he created the first joint venture between a winery and a wine-producing company in charge of distribution in the domestic market: the Wine Rinaldi.

Successful entrepreneur and avid Bridge, at the beginning of the century became President of the Bridge Bologna at that time was sailing in troubled waters, by serving his management skills and little time in turning it into a model to imitate, with Tournaments of 30 tables each night, and more unique than rare, with a budget that in recent years have permanently closed in the black.

In 2009, after a bitter dispute with the incumbent president Gianarrigo Rona, won the Presidency of the Italian Federation Bridge by launching a program that promises a revival of the national dissemination of the Game.

In mid 2011, the FIGB is commissariat by CONI about administrative irregularities and succeeded him the Special Commissioner Marcello Marchioni.