He worked for over twenty years at A.B.N. AMRO Bank as Director in charge of the foreign financial sector.

In 1984 he founded the Prisma Group, which manages a fund worth of 750 million CHF with a yearly turnover of 100 million CHF.

Ugo Doninelli was one of the first investors in Tinet, the first Internet provider in Ticino, now integrated in Cablecom.

In the international arena he is chairman of the board of Norsat International, a leader satellite business company based in Vancouver, which is quoted at NewYork's NASDAQ and at Toronto Stock Exchange.

Ugo A. Doninelli is one of the founders of Lifeware and chairman of the board.