Rizzotti Elizabeth

Newcleo – Chief Operating Officer

After graduating in Physics from the University of Turin and gaining brief experience at CERN, Elisabeth Rizzotti entered the business world, joining Accenture to provide strategic consulting to clients in the financial sector.
She then spent five years at Banca Lombarda before moving to UBI Banca, at the time Italy’s fifth largest banking group in terms of number of branches, where she demonstrated her managerial skills and desire for innovation in various leadership roles. In 2017, she became Head of Communications, a role she held during a crucial period for the bank, leading the incorporation of UBI Banca into Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest international banking group in terms of total assets.

In 2021, Elisabeth co-founded newcleo, an innovative company in the field of nuclear energy that is working on the design, construction and management of Generation IV Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRs), cooled with liquid lead and fuelled by reprocessed nuclear waste. With €570 million in private funding and a workforce of over 1,100 highly skilled employees in France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland and Slovakia, newcleo is not only developing and providing the expertise and services necessary for its ambitious goal, but is also supporting the development of supply chains for Small Modular Reactors in Europe and beyond.