Board of Directors

Dan McClory

Daniel McClory

Executive Chairman and Director

Mr. McClory has also served as Executive Chairman and a member of the board of directors of Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) since July 2022. Mr. McClory is a co-founder and has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Boustead & Company Limited, a non-bank financial institution since July 2016. He has also been at its wholly owned subsidiary Boustead Securities, LLC, and served as the Managing Director, Head of Equity Capital Markets, and Head of China since July 2016. Prior to working at Boustead, Mr. McClory held Managing Director positions at Bonwick Capital Partners, LLC, Burnham Securities Inc., and Hunter Wise Financial Group, LLC between May 2003, and July 2016. Mr. McClory’s teams have ranked in the Top Ten of League Tables for placement agents, won “Deal of the Year” at the M&A Advisor Awards, and completed IPOs and transactions for clients listed on Nasdaq, the NYSE, the London Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, and the Irish Stock Exchange. Mr. McClory serves on the boards of the USA Track & Field Foundation, the Eastern Michigan University Champions Advisory Board, the American Foundation of Savoy Orders, and the Alder Foundation, where he listed the first-ever foreign-funded, venture philanthropy-backed IPO on Bovespa’s Social Stock Exchange in Brazil. Mr. McClory earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in Language and International Trade from Eastern Michigan University. In 2010, Eastern Michigan University awarded Mr. McClory an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree.

Emanuele Filiberto

Emanuele Filiberto

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia is the grandson of Umberto II, the last reigning king of Italy.

Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia worked as a hedge fund manager at Republic National Bank of New York from 1993 to 1996 and at Syz Bank from 1996 to 2005, both located in Geneva, Switzerland. He also created the Altin Fund in 1997, the first hedge fund listed on the Zurich Stock Exchange.

In 2003, Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia established the Emanuele Filiberto Charity Fund Foundation, which supports Italian nonprofits in such areas as health, education and poverty.

He created his production company “AristoCrazy” in 2014 and has appeared on various television programs since 1994, including serving as a co-host on the talent show “Ciak… si Canta! and competing on “Ballando con le Stelle,” the Italian version of “Dancing with the Stars,” which he won.

In 2014, Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia created his own fashion brand called “PrinceTees” introducing a line of exclusive t-shirts made of cotton and cashmere.

In 2017, Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia created Prince of Venice restaurants, a fast casual concept of fresh homemade pasta and Roman-style pizza.

Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia has also written two books, Sognando L’Italia (Dreaming of Italy), a memoir about growing up in exile published in 1998, and the novel Mi Fai Stare Bene (You Make Me Feel Good), a fictional love story published in 2022 about the exploits of a wellknown Italian radio DJ.

Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Geneva.

Alberto Libanori

Alberto Libanori

Board Director

Since April 2022, Dr. Libanori has served as a Senior Advisor of Boustead & Company Limited. Dr. Libanori has also been a member of the board of directors for Mainz Biomed N.V. (Nasdaq: MYNZ) since November 2021 and Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) since July 2022. Previously, Dr. Libanori founded and helped with the strategic exits of a number of technology start-ups, including Atelier Mnemist SAS and Cutech, which was acquired by Symrise. He also has 10 years work experience at the science-business interface in venture capital, business development & licensing, M&A, and IPOs, focusing on life sciences, med-tech, and cosmeceuticals, working with L’Oréal Research and Innovation, M-Ventures, and Novartis Venture Funds. Dr. Libanori has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in journals, including Nature Electronics, Advanced Materials, and ACS Nano, and holds two patents. Dr. Libanori holds a Ph.D. and MS in Bioengineering from UCLA, with a focus on wearable and implantable bioelectronics and biomaterials for regenerative medicine, an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s in Bimolecular Sciences (Hons) from St Andrews University. Dr. Libanori is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Portuguese, alongside his native Italian.

Dario Melpignano

Dario Melpignano

Technology Advisor

Since 2007 Mr Melpignano is CEO and co-founder of Neosperience. He created the Neosperience Cloud application platform – starting from the development of the first apps with the launch of the iPhone 3G in Europe – for the creation of omnichannel services that innovate the Digital Experience.

Neosperience won the Red Herring Top 100 award first at European level and then worldwide, obtaining intemational recognition of Gartner Cool Vendor and winning QUID Innovation Italy awards and Gran Prix Publicity Italia.

In 2016 he co-founded Neosurance, a Neosperience insurtech spinoff, which in less than a year became a leading disruptor of the insurance world in Europe, obtaining a number of awards.

In 2017 he co-founded Bikevo, a sportech start-up dedicated to the training of amateur cyclists, and WizKey dedicated to the legaltech for the purchase and sale of credits integrated with blockchain.

In 2018, he embarked on an ambitious development path in the fusi on of empathy in technology through artificial intelligence. Neosperience was referenced by Gartner as one of the new pioneers of AI and indicated as the only European reference company, alongside Adobe, IBM and Microsoft.

On February 20, 2019, he debuted in Piazza Affari listing Neosperience in an IPO that recorded an increase of +38.6% on the first day.

During 2020, he accelerated the development of the Company with a series of acquisitions of software vendors, homogeneous in values and complementary in the offer, giving life to the national pole of digital solutions development. With the defeatcovid.org project, he gave the global community the first machine leaming model to help diagnose Covid-19, subsequently treasuring the experience with the launch of a Company business unit dedicated to healthtech.