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Mark Korb has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 3, 2019. Mr. Korb has over 20-years’ experience with high-growth companies and experience taking startup operations to the next level. Since June 2019, First South Africa Management, a company for which Mr. Korb has served as the Chief Financial Officer since January 2010 has been providing consulting services to us, including the financial expertise required of public companies. First South Africa Management provides financial management and strategic management services to various companies.

Since August 2013, Mr. Korb has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Icagen, Inc., a drug discovery company with a focus on neurosciences and rare disease. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Korb was the group chief financial officer and director of Foodcorp (Proprietary) Limited (“Foodcorp”), a multimillion dollar consumer goods company based in South Africa. In his role as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Korb delivered operational and strategic leadership for the full group financial function during a period of change including mergers, acquisitions and organic growth. As a board director he cultivated relationships with shareholders, bond holders, financial institutions, rating agencies, and auditors. Mr. Korb was also responsible for leading the group IT strategy and implementation and supervised 16 direct reports including 10 divisional financial directors. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Korb was the group Chief Financial Officer of First Lifestyle, initially a publicly traded company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa which was then purchased by management which included Mr. Korb. He anchored the full group financial function with responsibility for mergers and acquisitions activity, successfully leading the process whereby the company was sold to Foodcorp mentioned above. Upon completion of the merger, Mr. Korb was appointed as the group Chief Financial Officer of Foodcorp. Mr. Korb is also the Chief Financial Officer to several other companies including, MCW Energy Group Limited, a Canadian company engaged in the creation of technology for the environmentally-safe extraction of oil from oil sands and oil shale deposits.

Clive Kabatznik was appointed to serve on our Board of Directors on June 26, 2019. Since May 2013, Mr. Kabatznik has served on the Board of Directors of Icagen. He currently serves as the President of First South Africa Management, a company that he founded that has been engaged in management consultancy services since January 1996. From 2017 to the present Mr. Kabatznik has been Chairman of the Board of Datos Health, Inc. a Software provider of digital medical products primarily in the sphere of remote patient monitoring. From 2005 until the present, Mr. Kabatznik has served as a director of Strategy First, Inc., a Montreal-based digital publisher and distributor of video games. From 2009 until 2015, he was the operating manager of New Bedford Media LLC, a company he co-founded which focuses on the acquisition and operation of digital media companies. From 1995 until 2009, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Silverstar Holdings, a United States publicly listed company that he founded that was established to acquire, own and operate companies, with an emphasis on businesses which stand to benefit from new Internet and technology-based platforms. Prior to 1995, Mr. Kabatznik was engaged in investment banking.

Mr. Kabatznik has served as President of Colonial Capital, Inc., a Miami-based investment banking company that specializes in advising middle market companies in areas concerning mergers, acquisitions, private and public agency funding and debt placements.

Mr. Kabatznik brings Newgioco significant business experience with small public companies, his achievements in the financial and investment banking industries and his overall business expertise.

Steven A. Shallcross was appointed to serve on our Board on June 13, 2019. Mr. Shallcross has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Synthetic Biologics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: SYN) since December 6, 2025 and currently serves as Synthetic Biologics’ Chief Executive Officer, a position he was appointed to on December 6, 2018, and Synthetic Biologics’ Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Shallcross was appointed as Synthetic Biologics’ Interim Chief Executive Officer on December 5, 2025 and has served as its Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since joining Synthetic Biologics in June 2015. Synthetic Biologics is a clinical-stage company focused on developing therapeutics designed to preserve the microbiome to protect and restore the health of patients.

From May 2013 through May 2015, Mr. Shallcross served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nuo Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Cytomedix, Inc.). In January 2016, Nuo Therapeutics, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and on April 25, 2016, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order granting approval of Nuo’s plan of reorganization. From July 2012 to May 2013, Mr. Shallcross held the offices of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Empire Petroleum Partners, LLC, a motor fuel distribution company. From July 2011 to March 2012, Mr. Shallcross was Acting Chief Financial Officer of Senseonics, a privately-held medical device company located in Germantown, MD. From January 2009 to March 2011, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Innocoll AG (formerly privately held Innocoll Holdings, Inc.), a global, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development and commercialization of collagen-based products. He also served for four years as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., leading the company through its successful IPO and follow-on offering and previously served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Middlebrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly Advancis Pharmaceutical Corporation). In addition, Mr. Shallcross also served as the Chief Financial Officer of Bering Truck Corporation. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.

Mr. Shallcross brings Newgioco significant strategic, operational, business and financial experience, an established track record at leading the financial development and strategy for several publicly traded companies and his familiarity with financial matters facing public reporting companies. Mr. Shallcross has a broad understanding of the financial markets, financial statements as well as generally accepted accounting principles.

Franco Salvagni has served as our Vice President Land-based Operations since August 2016. Mr. Salvagni has 20 years of experience at the retail level in Italian gaming business. Since 2013, Mr. Salvagni has served as Area Manager in charge of developing the land-based distribution of betting shops in Italy of Ulisse GmbH.

Gabriele Peroni has served as our Vice President Business Development since August 2016. Mr. Peroni brings 20 years of experience in the online and land-based gaming business. From February 2011 to September 2013, Mr. Peroni was the Senior Sales Manager for GoldBet sportwetten GmbH in charge of business development throughout Italy. In addition, in June 2013, Mr. Peroni co-founded Odissea Betriebsinformatik Beratung GmbH and since September 2013 he has been instrumental to securing a number of significant business-to-business contracts with Odissea.

Carlo Reali brings over 25 years of financial management experience in the retail gaming business, having worked his entire career with one of the largest gaming companies in Italy. He has extensive knowledge of pricing models and accounting processes in all gaming product verticals. Mr. Reali brings a strong cash management skill set to this new role, and will work closely with our CFO, VP Finance and auditing firm to prepare and support our financial reporting efficiency. The hiring of an internal financial controller at our operation level is a part of the company’s mandate to implement corporate-wide standard operating procedures aimed at streamlining our financial reporting procedures going forward.

Bryan Calderoni is responsible for developing and maintaining our Newgioco brand standards while designing print and online materials, including promotional email layouts, videos, infographics, flyers, stacking diagrams, maps and websites, etc. In addition, Mr. Calderoni is an expert in web development and SEO functionality, currently holds a master certification in Adobe Video development and specializes in creating logos and branding for ecommerce, presentations and interactive designs for the implementation of product marketing.

Michael Denny is a NET developer and software architect and Microsoft MVP with over 17 years of experience. Michael specializes in the development of highly scalable applications is a full-time software architect on our betting platform technology development team. He also contributes regularly to open-source projects and also supports developers in MSDN, StackOverflow and dotnethell forums and to members of the community since 2011.

Michael earned his Microsoft MVP status in 2014 on .net and is also a trainer specialized for Visual Studio and Programming Object. Along with Alessandro Alpi, Michael is one of the organizers of the PASS SQL Saturday event in Parma, Italy.

Federico is a Project Management expert with over 15 years of qualified team leadership experience as IT resource-oriented management of Linux and Windows systems. He is responsible for stakeholder relationships as well as end customer interface concept and translates commercial transaction functional requirements of our betting platform software to the technical development staff.

Andrea has more than 10 years of experience in developing applications used in the betting and gambling world. He gained his first experience as a .Net developer, then as a Database Administrator in SQL Server and finally as a Business Intelligence Engineer. Thanks to the different roles occupied in his career, Andrea has a vast knowledge of the business and for this reason he is the Odissea wild-card.

Angelo Merola, brings 13 years of experience in the gaming world, has specialized in institutional relations and in the compliance. He was CEO for 5 years at another gaming company, making it one of the first to be independent in terms of business and technological implementations. Angelo is a highly respected name throughout the regulated Italian gaming indistry, have proven the value of incorporating our ELYS betting platform by Odissea in the highly contested and vibrant Italian sports betting market.