BFF Bank Spa announced Thursday that the shareholders meeting has appointed Guido Cutillo, Susana Mac Eachen, Massimiliano Belingheri, Anna Kunkl, Domenico Gammaldi, Piotr Henryk Stepniak, Alexia Ackermann, Mimi Kung and Ranieri de Marchis as members of the new board of directors, which will serve for three fiscal years, who was also given the position of chairman. In addition, Anna Kunkl was selected for the role of vice-chairman and Massimiliano Belingheri was confirmed in that of managing director, with the addition of the appointment of anti-money laundering officer, pursuant to the Bank of Italy provision amending the "Provisions on organization, procedures and internal controls in the area of anti-money laundering." The meeting then authorized the board of directors to purchase and dispose of up to 8.9 million shares, representing 5 percent of the banks share capital.

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Mimi is a Non-Executive Board Director at Prysmian Group, bringing over 25 years of experience in Finance, Operations, Customer Engagement, Sales, and General Management. Prior to this role, she served as a Non-Executive Board Director at Poste Italiane from June 2016 to May 2023 and at Bank of Ireland UK from October 2017 to November 2020. Mimis career includes various leadership positions at American Express from October 1995 to March 2015, where she held roles such as SVP, Italy Country Manager, Head of Proprietary Card Services for Central Europe and ICC, VP and GM of Global Commercial Payments, and VP of Europe and International Partnership and Rewards. She began her career at GE Capital in 1991 and also worked at The Grand Hyatt Taipei from 1988 to 1990. Mimi holds a Business Administration and Finance degree from Boston University and has completed the Oxford University Finance Executive Management Program.

Anna is a Member of the Management Board at BFF Banking Group since March 2022. With over 12 years of experience in banking and consultancy, she held roles at KPMG and Be Consulting. Anna possesses expertise in financial business, specializing in Financial Markets regulation such as ESG, Crypto regulation, MiFID, Market Abuse, EMIR, and PRIIPS. She is also a Director at Be | Shaping the Future Italy. Prior to her current position, Anna served as a Senior Manager at KPMG Advisory SPA for 8 years and as a Business Analyst at ING Bank N.V. Milan Branch from 2001 to 2004. Earlier in her career, she worked as an IT&Organization Business Analyst at Caboto Holding SIM S.p.A. Anna holds a degree in Physics, Theoretical Physics from Università degli Studi di Milano (1991 - 1997) and completed her Maturità in Science at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci (1986 - 1991).

Alexia is currently the COO at Portland Hill Asset Management, a position she has held since September 2017. Prior to this, she served as the Deputy Global Head of Risk - Prime Services at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB) from January 2012 to September 2017. Before that, she was the COO - Prime Brokerage at Newedge from March 2010 to December 2011. She also held the role of COO/CAO at Societe Generale Asset Management from August 2007 to February 2010. Earlier in her career, she worked as an Inspecteur Principal at Société Générale from June 2004 to July 2007.

Alexia spent 7 years and 3 months as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, from March 1997 to May 2004. Prior to that, she was a Financial Controller at Banque Indosuez from May 1994 to September 1995.

She earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School (1999 - 2001) and completed a Finance program at HEC Paris (1993 - 1997).

BFF Banking Group is a specialty finance company operating throughout Europe, specialized in the management and non-recourse factoring of trade receivables due from Public Administrations, securities services, banking and corporate payments.

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