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Michel Grimaldi is a Director at Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd., where he has held a position in securities and digital currencies trading since November 2009. His current mandate covers foreign equities, bonds, derivatives, and digital currencies. He holds collective signatory authority at the bank, as recorded in the Swiss commercial register.

Prior to joining Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd., Grimaldi held a securities trading role at Safdié from March 2008 to November 2009, and before that at BCV in Lausanne from September 2000 to June 2007. His total professional experience spans approximately 25 years. He completed his education at the School of Business at Beaulieu between 1997 and 1999. He is fluent in French and Italian at native or bilingual level, with full professional proficiency in English and working proficiency in Spanish.

Rani Jabban is Deputy CEO / Head of Treasury, Financial Institutions, Digital Assets & Marketing at Arab Bank (Switzerland), where he sits on the Executive Committee. He leads the bank's digital assets activities, which he initiated, alongside its treasury, financial institutions, and marketing functions. He drove the bank's entry into crypto from 2018, positioning it as a provider of digital asset custody, trading, and staking services. The bank selected Taurus as its custody partner, signing in December 2018 with the solution live in 2019. Jabban also serves as a Board Member at Taurus.

He joined Arab Bank Switzerland in 2009 as Head of Treasury and was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2014. Prior to that, he spent nine years at Credit Agricole (Suisse) SA as Senior Manager in Forex Private Banking, and before that held a Forex Treasury Sales role at Banque Française de l'Orient, part of the Credit Agricole Indosuez group, from 1995 to 2000. He holds two Master of Science degrees: one from the Magistère Banque Finance and one in DESS Techniques Financières et Bancaires from Paris-Panthéon-Assas University. He completed the High Performance Leadership executive program at IMD in 2016.