Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
Chunk: 265

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
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 note : Mr Hutchins is non-executive Chair of investment firm North Island Ventures, an independent director of AT&T and Lead Independent Director of CoreWeave, Inc. He is a member of the international advisory board and investment board of Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation (GIC), co-Chair of the Brookings Institution, Chair emeritus of not-for-profit organization CARE, and Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation. He also serves on the executive committee of the Boston Celtics basketball team.

Membership of board committees : Nomination committee, remuneration committee (Chair), and innovation and technology committee (Chair).

Skills and competencies : As a long-time investor in technology and fintech companies, Mr Hutchins has expertise in financial markets and is well-known among investors and stakeholders. He brings to the board his acumen in technology, telecommunications, innovation, finance and investment as well as extensive knowledge of financial regulation as a result of his leadership roles in government, especially with financial regulators and supervisors. He works closely with not-for-profit entities committed to fighting poverty, designing effective public policy and promoting social justice.

| José AntonioÁlvarez Álvarez 
 VICE CHAIR                  
 Non-executive director      |

Board member since 2015.

Nationality : Spanish. Born in 1960 in León, Spain.

Education : Degree in Economics and Business Administration. MBA from the University of Chicago.

Experience : Mr Álvarez joined Banco Santander in 2002. He was appointed Senior Executive Vice President ( director general ) and Head of the Financial Management and Investor Relations division in 2004 (Group Chief Financial Officer) and was Group CEO from 2015 to 2022.

He served as director at SAM Investments Holdings Limited, Santander Consumer Finance, S.A., Santander Holdings USA, Inc., and as non-executive Vice Chair of Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. He sat on the supervisory boards of Santander Consumer Bank AG, Santander Consumer Holding GmbH and Santander Bank Polska, S.A. He was also a board member of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, S.A.

Other positions of note : Mr Álvarez is an independent director of Aon PLC and a member of the advisory committee of Grupo Buenavista.

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

Membership of board committees : Executive committee, risk supervision, regulation and compliance committee, and innovation and technology committee.

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