Alessandro was the CSO at Bachem, a leading Swiss developer and manufacturer of peptides and oligonucleotides for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. He leads the delivery of the security, data privacy and GXP IT compliance and IT business continuity programs. Prior to Bachem, Alessandro was the CISO at Octapharma a leading plasma fractionation pharmaceutical company. Prior to that worked at Novartis in various information security management roles. Alessandro is passionate about sharing and learning from others, and helping to advance the cyber security community.