Biography

Elisabeth Rizzotti has served as Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Italy of newcleo since 2021, as well as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of newcleo since January 2026. Ms. Rizzotti has also served as a director of newcleo since June 2025. Before cofounding newcleo, Ms. Rizzotti worked at Accenture Italia for over a decade, most recently as a senior manager focused on financial services clients. She subsequently served at Banca Lombarda e Piemontese S.p.A. from 2002 to 2007 in strategic planning and marketing roles, and then at Unione di Banche Italiane S.p.A. (UBI Banca) from 2007 to 2021 in a series of senior leadership roles, including Head of Retail, Head of Direct Channels and Communication, Head of Company Multichannel Experience, Head of Marketing and, from 2017, Head of Communications. In that latter role, she led communications during the incorporation of UBI Banca into Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. Ms. Rizzotti began her career at CERN. She received a degree in physics and a specialization in nuclear physics from the University of Turin.