Michele Curtoni

Head of Digital Assets Strategy
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Michele Curtoni is Head of Digital Assets & Financial Information Strategy at SIX Group, a position he has held since June 2025. He concurrently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at AsiaNext, an institutional digital asset exchange for tokenising and trading securities and non-bankable assets. Prior to this role, he spent four years as Head of Strategy & New Business at SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), where he was a member of the SDX Executive Committee and Strategy Committee, with responsibility for strategy, marketing, and new business initiatives. In that capacity he represented SDX publicly on topics including product roadmaps, digital capital markets architecture, CBDC developments, and Project Helvetia insights.

Before joining SIX, Curtoni was a VP in State Street's Digital Product Development and DLT team, where he focused on cryptocurrencies' safekeeping and custody, asset tokenisation, and technology deployment projects for blockchain-based initiatives. Prior to State Street, he was a manager and strategy leader within LSEG's Emerging Technologies group, and also worked in LSEG's Group Strategy division, where he was involved in acquisitions, corporate partnerships, and other group strategic initiatives. He also served on the Blockchain Advisory Board at Fintech Connect from January 2019 to June 2021. Curtoni holds an MSc in Economics and International Financial Economics from the University of Warwick and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Marcello Pichini

Associate Director, Senior Product Manager Digital Assets

Marcello Pichini is a Senior Product Manager Digital Assets at SIX, based in Zurich, Switzerland, a position he has held since July 2022. In this role, he is responsible for the SIX Crypto Indices and Digital Asset Reference Rates, including their expansion. His work sits at the intersection of digital assets, blockchain, and crypto markets.

Prior to SIX, Pichini worked as a Data Scientist at IBM from April 2021 to May 2022, within IBM Client Engineering in Milan. His work there included deploying data pipelines in cloud environments, implementing data quality and data masking strategies, designing data models and ETL practices, working with Apache Spark for distributed processing, and applying machine learning algorithms to structured and unstructured data across IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift environments. Alongside his role at SIX, Pichini is Co-Founder and Vice President of ./cogita, a non-profit association founded in 2022 that offers free computer science, large language model, and generative AI courses with the stated aim of reducing social differences through education.

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