Board of Directors

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    Damian Banks

    CHAIR OF THE BOARD

    Director since November 2023

    Mr Banks is an experienced business leader with a proven track record in developing and expanding successful healthcare, employment, and banking businesses. He focuses on financial management, technology, and people and has a strong history of developing customer-focused cultures. Mr. Banks has also completed several M&A transactions.

    Damian had an Executive career covering leadership in Financial Services, Health and Employment industries after completing a Bachelor of Economics. His most recent executive role was leading Konekt Ltd (ASX:KKT) from 2012 through to its sale to APM Human Services Ltd in December 2019 an prior to than an executive with Westpac Banking Corporation. Damian has experience in the development and profitable expansion of businesses with a focus on market characteristics, financial management, technology and people. He also significant M&A experience.

    He is a Non-Executive Director of Imexhs Limited (ASX:IME) and Boom Logistics Limited (ASX:BOL) and an Advisory Board Member of APM Human Services Limited (ASX:APM).

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    Gianmarco Biagi

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Director since April 2019

    Gianmarco is a seasoned executive with over 20 years’ experience as executive across multinational manufacturing groups. Gianmarco is a business leader focused on shareholder value creation across technology, manufacturing and more.

    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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    Gianmarco Orgnoni

    DIRECTOR, CMO & CSO

    Director since November 2017

    Gianmarco is an experienced business executive focussed on companies’ growth through technology and innovation. During his career, Gianmarco has worked closely with Australian and foreign companies across a range of industries from civil engineering, education, technology, to real estate.

    Gianmarco holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan in Italy.

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    Jacopo Merli

    DIRECTOR, COO & CEO EMEA

    Director since December 2022

    Mr Jacopo 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 on the activity as 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 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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    Lorenzo Biagi

    DIRECTOR

    Director since April 2019

    Since the start of the journey, Lorenzo has assisted Vection Technologies to become a global technology business. Lorenzo started his career in the manufacturing sector, where he gained extensive knowledge in manufacturing processes, sales, and cost control.

    With a keen eye on technology innovation, Lorenzo was pivotal in foreseeing how XR technologies would transform businesses on a global scale.

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    Bert Mondello

    NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Director since November 2017

    Bert Mondello is an executive and professional director with more than 20 years of experience across the listed and unlisted sector. Bert has held a range of roles across a variety of sectors, where he has participated in company restructures, initial public offerings (IPOs), reverse take overs (RTOs), equity placements and seed raisings.

    During his career, Bert has been pivotal in challenging the status quo with innovation in new technologies across multiple products and offerings. Bert holds a Bachelor of Laws from The University of Notre Dame in Australia.

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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