Digital technology & innovation are the driving forces behind the transformation in healthcare, leading to a world of increasingly relevant, human-sized, solutions to health challenges.
Trained as a medical doctor and in marketing communications, his passion for medicine, computer science and human-technology interactions have led to his lifelong commitment and dedication to the advancement and spreading of digital healthcare, he holds a strong belief that digital innovations and technology will be the most impactful drivers of change in healthcare.
Roberto is currently CEO at Healthware Group, a global health innovation and technology leader providing transformational advisory and technology services for commercial, medical, and R&D operations of life-sciences and digital health companies, combined with design and development of digital medicines and digital therapeutics products.
Roberto is also very active in the digital health ecosystem in various advisor capacities both in Europe and in USA to companies, start-ups and investors; among others he has been recognized as Decade’s Best Industry Leader by Health 2.0 Conference - 10 Year Global Retrospective Award in 2016, nominated Transformational Leader at The 2017 PM360 ELITE Awards and named among the 100 Most Inspiring People by PharmaVOICE in 2017.
He is a Founding Member of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, has been President of the HealthTech Summit and is Chairman at Frontiers Health, which emerged as one of the leading digital health conferences globally.
He is a regular keynoter at global events as Webit, MWC, Wired Health, 4YFN, HIMMS | Health 2.0, Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC), TEDx, Codemotion, Upgraded Life Festival, Dublin Tech Summit, as well as large internal events for corporations like AXA, Bayer, BNP Paribas Cardif, EY, Merck, MSD, Roche, Sanofi.
In the past 25 years Roberto has been focusing on marketing and communications, business transformation and innovation in health and wellness: between 1997 and 2006 founded multiple companies at the intersection of healthcare and technology with main exit to Publicis Groupe in 2007; held multiple roles at Publicis Healthcare up to 2013 as Global President at Razorfish Healthware leading a Team of 300+ in 9 countries.
When not in New York City, London or Milan, then most likely, you will find him in Salerno along the Amalfi Coast, Italy.
Friday, we closed the 2021 edition of Frontiers Health global conference, the first fully hybrid!