I grew up in Milan and came to the United States for university, and I've lived between the two ever since: Italian and American citizen, native in both languages, at home in both ways of doing business. Fully Italian and fully American — in origin, language, culture, and daily life. There are not many of us.

I studied philosophy: a bachelor's, a master's, and the university's philosophy prize on the way out. Less of a detour than it sounds — the training is in taking an unfamiliar system apart until you understand how it actually works, and then explaining it to someone who doesn't, without simplifying it into something false. That is most of this job.

Then I went and did it. I built the Italian market for Hallow — the most downloaded prayer and meditation app in the world and one of the fastest-growing startups — as its first dedicated lead for Italy, running content, voice, and partnerships, more than thirty of them built from cold outreach, from a desk in the US. Companies assume Italy means an Italian entity and Italian staff before the first euro comes in. It doesn't, and that assumption is expensive.

The other half of this work is more personal. I know Italian bureaucracy, culture, and daily life from the inside — how the offices actually behave, what the paperwork really asks of you, how the country is lived rather than visited — which is what someone moving there needs on every front, not just the legal one.

Galanti Bridge is that work — for businesses entering Italy, and for Americans building a life there. Two countries I know and love deeply. There's nothing I'd rather do.