Before joining the Institute, he was Technical Director of Fata Automation, an industrial automation equipment company in Turin.

From 1990 to 1999, he worked for Cerutti, a global company specialised in printing and converting technologies. First he was Central Director of Cerfin, a holding company that dealt with the administration, financial, industrial and organisational co-ordination of Cerutti's subsidiaries and partners. He then became Head of Cerutti's Mechanical Design Department. He also simultaneously became Director of the Cerutti companies Coficer and Siec - the former specialised in engineering and mechanical design, the latter in the engineering of environmentally friendly graphics products.

His career started at Olivetti's Planning and Control Department, where he participated in a major logistic restructuring project, and was then made responsible for Product Marketing of Olivetti's asynchronous terminals range.

Mauro Demarziani studied Aeronautic Engineering at the Turin Polytechnic. He also obtained a MBA at SDA Bocconi in Milan.