Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
Chunk: 299

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Chunk 299
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 in March 2024, when he stepped down from the board. 
 The committee devoted significant time to senior executive succession planning in 2024 to ensure that we have the appropriate people to lead and execute our transformation strategy. We also remain committed to the continued development of our internal succession pipeline. As part of that, the board held two informal sessions with top talent across our                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

| COMPOSITION |

| Position          |     |                       |     | Category    |     | Appointed on |
| Chair             |     | Belén Romana          |     | Independent |     | 01/01/2024A  |
| Members           |     | Carlos Barrabés       |     | Independent |     | 27/07/2024   |
| Sol Daurella      |     | Independent           |     | 23/02/2015  |     |              |
| Gina Díez Barroso |     | Independent           |     | 22/12/2021  |     |              |
| Glenn Hutchins    |     | Independent           |     | 20/12/2022  |     |              |
| Secretary         |     | Jaime Pérez Renovales |     |             |     |              |

A. Committee Chair since 23 March 2024. The board of directors appointed the committee's members based on their expertise, skills and experience in the matters within the committee's scopes. For more details, see section 4.1 'Our directors' and 'Board and committees skills and diversity matrix' in section 4.2.

| TIME ALLOCATION |

In 2024, the committee held 13 meetings, including one joint session with the risk supervision, regulation and compliance committee. See 'Board and committee preparation and attendance' in section 4.3 for members' attendance and the estimated average time each one spent on meeting preparation and attendance. The chart below shows the committee’s approximate time allocation in 2024:

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

Duties and activities in 2024

This section summarizes the nomination committee's activities in 2024.

| Duties                                                                                            |     | Actions taken                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Board and committees composition and succession planning