Adducci's maternal grandfather, Lorenzo Valerio Bona, was Juventus FC forward and Commander and Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

He pursued additional study in electrical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology and in business administration at the University of Minnesota.

In 1960, Adducci was employed as an acoustical engineer for the Jensen Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois where he engaged in the design and development of loudspeakers and horns.

In 1961, he joined International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation in Chicago Illinois where, as a development engineer, he instructed numerous training courses on digital data communication systems and as a senior test engineer directed ITT personnel in electro-interference testing of the Boeing Minuteman (missile) for the Strategic Air Command.

[1] While in Chicago in 1963, Adducci worked with a local physician and developed an electronic ear thermometer used to detect the time of ovulation in the human female.

While at Medtronic he served in various technical and marketing responsibilities including, sales administration manager, and pacemaker consulting specialist.

[5] They began designing and testing their implantable cardiac pacemaker powered with the world's first longer-life lithium battery in 1971.

"Lilly had the research expertise, highly compatible interests, and similar values," Anthony Adducci recalls.

Before the final negotiations in late 1978, there were numerous flights between Minneapolis and Indianapolis for CPI principals and representatives of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood's corporate finance department.

Finally, both sides sat down at the bargaining table at a motel in suburban Bloomington, Minnesota – Lilly, the pharmaceutical giant, and CPI, the upstart pacemaker company.

CPI's negotiation team included Anthony Adducci, Art Schwalm, Tom King, and Hunt Greene.