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Riccardo Donega is Head of DLT and Digital Assets Products at Banca Sella, a position he has held since June 2025. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision, roadmap, and delivery of use cases in the digital assets and DLT domain, with a mandate to ensure alignment with regulatory frameworks and institutional standards. He works with cross-functional teams and engages with regulators, industry groups, and European initiatives as part of the bank's positioning in digital finance.

Donega's focus on digital assets at Banca Sella began earlier in his tenure. Prior to his current title, he served as Product Lead for DLT and Digital Assets from March 2023 to October 2025, and briefly as Digital Product Manager in Retail Banking from August 2022 to February 2023. Before joining Banca Sella, he worked at UniCredit as a Program Manager from October 2021 to July 2022, where he led a portfolio of projects within the Italian and German Corporate Banking area, with a focus on cross-country development and integration of CRM tools including Salesforce and Palantir. His total professional experience spans approximately six years and ten months. No educational background is included in the available source content.

Valerio Cicco is Deputy Director, Digital Banking at Banca Sella, a role he has held since March 2026. In this position he oversees HYPE (www.hype.it) and all Group digital touchpoints across online and omnichannel banking, with focus on the banking value proposition and the end-to-end product lifecycle of both Banca Sella Digital and HYPE. He also supervises the Group's digital assets and blockchain strategy in his capacity as a co-founder of that team. Immediately prior, from March 2025 to March 2026, he served as Head of AI Strategy, DLT & Digital Assets at the same institution.

His involvement in digital assets at Banca Sella dates to November 2022, when he co-founded the Digital Assets team from scratch, building it to approximately ten staff by 2025. As Co-Head, DLT & Digital Assets, he set strategy and led its execution within the Sella Group. His work in this period included participation in Banca d'Italia's Call for Proposals on DLT with a test stablecoin project described as the first of its kind in Italy, and leading the Group's exploration of an EU Stablecoin consortium opportunity, which he presented to the Board of Directors. He conducted more than 20 meetings with the national regulator. He also led the integration of HYPE S.p.A. into Banca Sella as Project Lead, including the definition of the 2026 Product Roadmap. Before moving into the Digital Assets mandate, he served as Executive Assistant to the Group Chief Executive Officer at Sella from November 2018 to October 2022. Earlier in his career he held roles at Axerve, including Special Project Manager and Strategic Planning Assistant, with responsibilities covering product launches and mergers and acquisitions scouting. Cicco holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and Business Administration from Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi', graduating with 108/110, and completed a Double Degree in International Management with Fudan University, achieving 110 cum Laude.