Mario received Christ at Aberdeen University in Scotland and was called to evangelize in and through the Catholic world. After a time with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), Mario and Anna established nine discipleship training and evangelization schools in Malta, Germany, Poland, New zealand, Ghana, Singapore, India, the Philippines and Indonesia. After being contacted by Bill Bright in 2000, Mario founded Millennium Films International, an organization that promotes the spreading of the Word of God in several countries including China, thorugh the JESUS Film. Mario and Anna direct hopeXchange, a humanitarian organization that promotes human dignity in developing countries. One of the current projects of hopeXchange is the building of a 100 bed hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. On th same hospital grounds, a center for evangelism and discipleship is also being constructed. Mario is a member of the Strategy Working Group of the Lausanne Committee for Word Evangelization. Evangelistic trips and humanitarian projects took Mario to more than 50 countries across all continents. Mario has been married to Anna since 1983. They currently reside in Rome.