[1] Borghi has worked since he was young in the field of financial markets, starting his career at 19 at a stockbroker's office in Milan.

As a working student, he graduated in Economics and Banking with 110 cum laude, attending the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in the evening and winning the Agostino Gemelli Award as the best graduate of his degree course.

In September 1999, he married Giorgia Fantin Borghi, who became later one of the most famous wedding planner in Italy.

In October 2014, he was appointed economic manager of the party and therefore abandoned the teaching activity to devote himself full time to politics.

In 2018, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and has been part of the expert panel charged with drawing up the government contract between the Five Star Movement and the League.