Since my undergrad years studying finance, I have always been driven by the desire to contribute to the sustainable transformation of our economic systems.

While working in Brazil for McKinsey & Company, I discovered a passion for agriculture, which eventually led to the opportunity of launching and leading Varda as its CEO, and I am proud of our vision of the next Green Revolution enabled by farm & field data sharing.

With a background in investment banking and corporate M&A in Agriculture, I have spent my career structuring and executing transactions, enhancing people and businesses.

I am passionate about creating value across the board and committed with the next Green Revolution: promoting and measuring sustainable agriculture, while improving efficiency.

Leading Varda’s operations, is a combination of multiple and diverse tasks – from procurement to production and where boresome has no room.

I am responsible for the technology team and delivery of our software systems.

I previously worked with agriculture data at Agrimetrics, and joined Varda in 2021 from technology company Arm.

My journey to Varda began as a software engineer in bioinformatics, subsequently developing data infrastructure services for the global science community in a range of technical and leadership roles.

I graduated in Information & Communication Technology in 2007 and have a PhD in Crop Production in 2010 from the University of Milan.

Since then, I have been working on the nexus of digital technologies and agriculture through initiatives in more than 20 countries across multilateral organizations, academia, and the private sector.