CEO and Executive Board Member at BEYON Money in Bahrain, UAE, KSA, leading Financial Super App owned by Batelco (listed company majority owned by Bahrain Sovereign Wealth Fund Mumtalakat), providing a one stop shop for Cards, Payments, Remittances, Open banking and Investment Products. • Former Blockchain Senior Advisor at NEOM (Saudi Arabia) and former Senior Advisor at Oliver Wyman engaged in Digital projects, addressing C-Suites of large Corporates, Financial Institutions, Government Organizations, Central Banks, FinTechs and Tech Firms for development of new Client Centric Business and Operating Models, based on Exponential Technology. • Part time Professor of Blockchain and Fintech H-Farm Master (Italy), SDABocconi (Italy) and BIBF (Bahrain). • Responsible as CEO of BEYON Money for development, launch and growth in GCC of a new Financial App (Central Banks regulated), based on Open Banking and Ecosystem of International Fintech, leveraging relationship with EDB Bahrain, DIFC, ADGM and CBUAE in UAE, Fintech Saudi and SAMA in KSA, creating a “one stop shop” app for the B2C, B2B2C and B2B. Responsible for PnL, strategy, FinTech targets valuation for Equity Investment, due diligence, business cases, stakeholders engagement with international investors. • International experience matured for 30 years in the USA and Europe in corporate, retail and private banking, in Chicago, New York, London, Milan, Frankfurt, Dublin, Bahrain, UAE, KSA. Executive experience in leading large corporates through digital transformation as well as Fintech from ground up, leading towards profitability and value creation on capital invested. • Previous Executive positions in Fintech as COO and General Manager of we.trade Innovation DAC, a Dublin Joint Venture owned by 12 European Banks (Caixa, DB, Erste, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Nordea, Rabobank, Santander, SogGen, UBS, Unicredit), a production grade cloud-based trade finance platform based on Blockchain licensed to 14 banks in Europe. • Executive for 11 years at Deutsche Bank Head Office, Frankfurt with Executive Roles such as Global Head of Disruptive Technologies & Solutions (AI, IoT, Blockchain); Global Head of Commercial Banking Products EMEA (responsible for SME Debt Note Multibillion Euro program with EIB and EIF); in Italy as Country Head of Private and Business Banking. • MD role for 10 years BNL – BNP Paribas Group in Italy and abroad as Head of Corporate Banking in USA and UK • Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milano and Master of Science in Economics, Statistic Econometric from the University Federico II of Napoli. MIT Sloan School of Management Certificate in IoT. Green card to work in USA (wife is US citizen). • Speaker at international conferences, contributor journalist at EconomyUp, Investor and Senior Advisor in Startups such as Wicket, a Blockchain B2C company that eliminates the issues related to secondary ticketing of events