Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
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Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
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2, she was appointed Executive Chair of Banesto. Between 2010 and 2014, she was CEO of Santander UK PLC and was a non-executive director until April 2021. In 2014 she was

appointed Executive Chair of Banco Santander. She was also a non-executive director of Santander UK Group Holdings PLC (2014-2021) and Chair of the European Banking Federation (2021-2023).

Other positions of note : Ms Botín is a member of the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company and Chair of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). She is also founder and Chair of the CyD Foundation (which supports higher education) and the Empieza por Educar Foundation (the Spanish subsidiary of international NGO Teach for All), and sits on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Positions in other Group companies : Ms Botín is non-executive Chair of Open Bank, S.A., Santander Consumer Finance, S.A., Open Digital Services, S.L., PagoNxt, S.L., Universia España Red de Universidades, S.A. and Universia Holding, S.L.; and is a non-executive director of Santander Holdings USA, Inc. and Santander Bank, N.A.

Membership of board committees : Executive committee (Chair) and innovation and technology committee.

Skills and competencies : Ms Botín has extensive international experience in top executive roles in banking. She has also led Grupo Santander’s strategic and cultural transformation, and her philanthropy underscores her ongoing commitment to sustainable and inclusive growth.

| Héctor                  
 Grisi Checa             
 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 
 Executive director      |

Board member since 2023.

Nationality : Mexican. Born in 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Education : Degree in Finance from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City).

Experience : Mr Grisi joined the Group in 2015 as Executive Chair and CEO of Banco Santander México and Grupo Financiero Santander México, S.A. de C.V. He was named Regional Head for North America (2019-2022). Before joining Santander he worked in Mexico and the US. Mr Grisi spent 18 years in several leadership

roles at Crédit Suisse, including Head of investment banking for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and Chair and CEO of Crédit Suisse México. He also held several roles in corporate and investment banking at Grupo Financ