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Filippo Chiricozzi is Stream Manager – Web3 Digital Assets Innovation at Banca Sella, a position he has held since August 2022. In this role, he coordinates the bank's web3, cryptocurrency, and metaverse development activities within the Innovation team. He also teaches on the executive master programme "NFT Creator & Metaverse Design" at w.academy Business School, covering modules on blockchain fundamentals, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and NFT history and use cases.

Chiricozzi entered the crypto space in 2017 and purchased his first NFT in December 2020, subsequently building a network focused on NFT education. Prior to Banca Sella, he worked as Partnership & Marketing Manager at Oval Money, a fintech firm. Earlier in his career, he co-founded two startups in 2014 — Moovenda and OffLunch — both built around a logistics-based approach to food delivery in Italy. Following a merger with another Italian operator in 2019, he transitioned to fintech. In 2022, he was selected for Operation3, a six-week programme run by Jericho designed to develop web3 skills, with involvement from founders of companies including The Sandbox and Ledger. His areas of expertise span finance and banking, marketing strategy, community building, and web3, with specific topic focus on NFTs, blockchain, and retention marketing.

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.