Riccardo Botta

Director - Production & Creative Hub, Sky Italia

Riccardo joined Sky Italia in 2010 and has since been appointed to various roles in content production, development and management. Initially in the role of chief of Broadcast Engineering, he later moved to creative services and television production as Sport Production and Operations Manager and was then appointed Production and Creative Hub Director managing all Production Centers of Sky Italia.

In his current role he manages the entire content department “full stack”, overseeing Production (Studios, Post-production and Creative Hub), content management and Playout operations, Creative development and being responsible for Engineering and Operations.

He started his career in 2000, after graduating in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Pavia, by joining the Media & Entertainment practice at Accenture where he worked for major Italian and European Media companies. Between 2007 and 2010 Riccardo was in charge of Operations and Engineering of the various H3G production and transmission centres supporting Mobile TV initiatives (DVB-H and UMTS).


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