Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> April 21, 2017

Interview with the Founder and CEO: Advanced Accelerator Applications SA (NASDAQ:AAAP)

Buono, Stefano
Stefano Buono is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Accelerator Applications SA. He is also a member of the board of directors. Prior to founding Advanced Accelerator Applications SA in 2002, Mr. Buono worked as a physicist at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development, or CRS4. During his six years with CRS4, Mr. Buono headed a team of engineers working on different international research projects in the field of energy production and nuclear waste transmutation. For approximately 10 years, he worked with Carlo Rubbia, Nobel laureate in physics, at CERN, the world’s largest research laboratory for particle physics. He actively participated in the development of CERN’s adiabatic resonance crossing method. He is the author of numerous scientific papers. Mr. Buono received his master’s degree in physics from the Universita degli Studi di Torino in Turin, Italy in 1991. Profile
TWST: Could you give us an overview of the company?

Mr. Buono: We are a radiopharmaceutical company developing, producing and commercializing drugs for diagnostic