Board of Directors

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    Mr Gianmarco Biagi

    Managing Director and CEO

    Director since April 2019

    Mr Gianmarco Biagi is a former CEO of important multinational manufacturing groups and General manager of an important Italian group leader in luxury furniture. He has been President of Settepuntonove Srl since 2018, a holding company of industrial investments in the sector of new technologies, furniture, automotive and of services. He holds institutional role as President of AIQ, UMIQ Board President at Confindustria Emilia and National Councillor at AISOM. Previously he held the position of President of the furniture and wood sector at Unindustria Bologna and of Media Industry President at Unindustria Bologna and President of the FXO consortium. Based in Italy, Gianmarco is very active in enterprise focused associations, and currently holds several institutional roles. Current roles include president of AICIM, president of AISOM, and board member of the scientific and technical committee of the Italian model for risk management in healthcare of the prestigious LUISS Business School.

    He is also an accomplished author of management strategy focussed publications.

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    Mr Lorenzo Biagi

    Executive Director

    Director since April 2019

    Mr Lorenzo Biagi is an experienced company manager in the private sector, with extensive knowledge in virtual reality technology, sales, and cost control management. While managing corporate development processes for more than 10 years, Mr Biagi has implemented new procedures and technologies helping make the companies he worked for and with, leaders in innovation.

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    Mr Jacopo Merli

    Executive Director and COO

    Director since December 2022

    Mr Merli is the founder and CEO of JMC Group, acquired by Vection Technologies during 2021. During the last ten years, Mr Merli expanded JMC's focus as an OEM partner for a $100b tech hardware giant within mission-critical sectors including military, telco, and broadcasting, becoming, in 2019, one of their global suppliers. During his university career in aerospace engineering, Mr Merli joined as a consultant to the Italian branch of a NASDAQ-listed world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of high-performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processor ("DSP") and integrated circuits ("ICs") acquiring key knowledge of large company management processes.

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    Mr Umberto (Bert) Mondello

    Non-Executive Director (resigned as Chairman on 10 November 2023)

    Director since November 2017

    Mr Bert Mondello is an experienced public company director, corporate advisor, and technology expert with 20 years of experience across both the private and public sectors. Mr Mondello has widespread experience spanning retail and institutional sectors and extensive knowledge of marketing communications and investor relations. With deep-rooted expertise across multiple technology sectors, Mr Mondello has provided strategic corporate advice and mentoring to several private and public organisations internationally across multiple industries. He holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Notre Dame, Australia.

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    Mr Cameron Petricevic

    Independent and Non-Executive Chair

    Director since November 2017

    Cameron was appointed as an Independent and Non‑Executive Chair of Butn on the 23rd of February 2024. Cameron has spent over 20 years in the financial industry, an experienced Board member of both private and public companies. He has extensive investment banking experience, including mergers & acquisitions, valuations, initial public offerings and portfolio management coupled with growing early stage companies. Cameron is a qualified Actuary (AIAA), holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from the University of Melbourne, with First Class Honours. He is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and founder/treasurer of Brimbank ToRCH, a Royal Children’s Hospital auxiliary charity. He has held previous roles at AXA Asia Pacific (acquired by AMP), Acorn Capital and as a Partner at Kentgrove Capital. Cameron is currently a Director/Founder at Lucrum Ventures Pty Ltd and a Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary of RocketBoots Ltd (ASX-ROC).

Company Secretary and CFO

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    Derek Hall

    COMPANY SECRETARY AND CFO

    Derek is a finance and compliance professional with extensive experience advising boards. He is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Financial Services Institute, and Associate Member of Chartered Secretaries Australia.

Advisory Board

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    Siegmar Haasis

    BOARD ADVISOR

    Dr Siegmar Haasis, is a highly experienced automotive executive with twenty-six years international digitization experience with Daimler, one of the biggest producers of premium cars and the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach, of which the last eight years as CIO R&D of Mercedes-Benz.  

    During his career, Dr Haasis has successfully conducted over twenty significant transformation projects maturing unparalleled knowledge in R&D, research, production, sales and aftersales and IT, as well as digitization strategy, data and software development.  

    Dr Haasis has been a member of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) Working Group (WG) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for over ten years. The VDA is an association comprising of more than 620 companies involved in production for the automotive industry in the Federal Republic of Germany, with more than 80 employees in 20 departments actively pursuing the interests of the German automotive industry. Since 2020, Dr Haasis has covered the role of Chairman of the VDA WG Digitization in Development.

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    Vittorio Terzi

    BOARD ADVISOR

    Born on August 16, 1954 he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and an MBA from SDA Bocconi in 1981. After working at the EEC Environment Directorate in Brussels, in 1980 he was recruited in Citibank for about 5 years dealing with wholesale banking and international project financing. He joined McKinsey & Company in 1985, where he became Partner in 1990 and Director in 1996. In 1988 he managed the opening of the new office in Rome. He was from 2004 to 2011 Managing Partner of the McKinsey & Company Mediterranean Complex. In 2014, he founded Terzi & Partners, a company that advises corporations, innovative companies and financial institutions on industrial strategy, M&A, corporate finance and governance. He is independent director of Banca Generali S.p.A. since April 2015, Generali Italia S.p.A. and Value Italy S.p.A. He is also member of the Executive Committee of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, past President of American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, and Senior Advisor to BC Partners and Coller Capital.

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    Gabriele Sorrento

    BOARD ADVISOR

    Mr Gabriele Sorrento was the CEO and co-founder of Mindesk, acquired by Vection Technologies in April 2020. He is passionate about computational design, having obtained a Master's Degree in Architectural Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan and studied entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University as a Fulbright fellow. He has over 13 years of experience in 3D CAD, having worked with renowned architectural brands including Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Heller Manus Architects.

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