I grew up in a small town at the foot of the mountains in northern Italy, somewhere between Milan and Venice. Surfing wasn’t exactly on my doorstep, but for some reason I’ve always been drawn to the ocean, taking every opportunity I could to surf the Mediterranean.

In 2013, I moved to Australia to pursue a doctorate in Astrophysics. Before long, surfboard design became an unexpected obsession. I found myself fascinated by the way small changes in a board’s curves, contours and dimensions could completely change the way it felt and performed.

In 2014, I started building my own boards in a small, rundown shed hidden in the bush behind Bells Beach, driven by curiosity the love of surfing. What began as an interest gradually became a craft, and over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to learn from some of the best shapers in the world, including Maurice Cole and Eric Arakawa, as well as from the many talented local shapers and surfers of the Surf Coast.

I’m interested in boards that are balanced, well tuned and that I genuinely enjoy riding. I tend to coupled my designs with a clean aesthetics. The goal is to keep exploring make the best boards I possibly can and, in doing so, hopefully elevate the experience of those who ride them.