Umberto joined Forward Global Partners in January 2022 after over 15 years in the European Parliament where he worked in the Economic, Trade and Transport committees. He has an extensive knowledge of EU digital antitrust cases as well as aviation state aid highly politicised cases. His experience in the corridors of Brussels and involvement with highly-politicised dossiers have led him to build an unprecedented network of decision makers, industry stakeholders and journalists. He has the experience on how to build a winning strategy, and, if needed; how to create a political-mediatic thunderstorm to bring greater attention to your issue/challenge. Umberto is fluent in Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.