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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5 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Education : Degree in Business Administration from the Lisbon School of Economics & Management and MBA from the University of Lausanne.

Experience : Mr de Castro was Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo. Previously, he had been the manager of worldwide devices, media and platforms at Google, European sales and business development manager at Dell Inc., and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was also an independent director at First Data Corporation.

Other positions of note : Mr de Castro is an independent director of Fiserv Inc.

Positions in other Group companies : Mr de Castro is a non-executive director of PagoNxt, S.L.

Membership of board committees : Audit committee, remuneration committee, and innovation and technology committee.

Skills and competencies : Mr de Castro brings to the board valuable international experience in technological and digital strategy due to his executive roles in the world's top technology companies.

| Germánde la Fuente Escamilla         
 Non-executive director (independent) |

Board member since 2022.

Nationality : Spanish. Born in 1964 in Madrid, Spain.

Education: Degree in Economics and Business Administration with a diploma in auditing from the Complutense University of Madrid .

Experience: Mr de la Fuente has spent his professional career at Deloitte, where he has been Head of the audit business for the financial services industry (2002–2007), managing partner of Audit & Assurance (2007-2021) in Spain, and Chair and CEO of Deloitte, S.L. (2017-2022). He was also a member of the global board of directors of the firm from 2012 to 2016 and of the global audit and risk services committee until June 2021. He has been involved in auditing major Spanish financial groups and in multiple consulting and advisory projects.

Membership of board committees : Audit committee (Chair) and risk supervision, regulation and compliance committee.

Skills and competencies: Mr de la Fuente brings extensive experience in the auditing industry and sound knowledge in auditing, accounting and internal and risk control, and the banking sector, all of which uphold his recognition as a financial expert.

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| Contents |     | Business model and strategy |     | Sustainability statement |     | Corporate governance |     | Economic and financial review |     | Riskmanagement and compliance |

| Gina                                 
 Díez Barroso Azcárraga               
 Non-executive director (independent) |

Board member since