Alessandro Sidoli is the co-founder and from the inception Chief Executive Officer of Axxam. From mid-2023, he acts as Corporate Strategic Advisor. He has been President of Assobiotec/Federchimica, the Italian association of the biotech industry (2010-2016), after having been Vice President since 2004. Since 2016 he is Chairman of Federchimica’s Research Development and Innovation Committee. In 2015 he co-founded a business angels association focused on biotechnology (Italian Angels for Biotech), being Vice President (2015-2019).

He started his career as a Research Scientist at the Biotechnology Department of Farmitalia Carlo Erba in Milan, and later he was also a researcher at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University (UK). Afterwards he served as Head of the Biotechnology Department at the Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese (Milan).

He also founded Primm, one of the first Italian biotech companies, and was also Director of Technology Transfer at San Raffaele in Milan. Alessandro Sidoli received his degree in Biology from the University of Pavia where he conducted his studies as a member of the Ghislieri College.