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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 Mr Álvarez is a highly qualified and talented leader with a distinguished career in banking. He brings significant strategic and international management expertise, in particular financial planning, asset management and consumer finance, and has vast knowledge of the Group from his tenure as CEO. He has extensive experience and an established reputation with such key stakeholders as regulators and investors.

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

| HomairaAkbari                        
 Non-executive director (independent) |

Board member since 2016.

Nationality : American and French. Born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran.

Education : PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from Tufts University of Massachusetts and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Experience : Ms Akbari was a non-executive director of Gemalto NV and Veolia Environment S.A. She was Chair and CEO of SkyBitz, Inc., managing director of TruePosition Inc., and a non-executive director of Covisint Corporation and US Pack Logistics, LLC. She also held various roles at Microsoft Corporation and Thales Group, was non-executive Chair of WorkFusion, Inc., and an independent director of Temenos, AG.

Other positions of note : Ms Akbari is CEO of AKnowledge Partners, LLC, a global consultancy firm on the Internet of Things, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. She is an independent director of Landstar System, Inc. and a member of the security advisory board of Telefónica Soluciones de Criptografía, S.A.U. She is also a trustee of the French Institute Alliance Française.

Positions in other Group companies : Ms Akbari is a non-executive director of Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. and PagoNxt, S.L.

Membership of board committees : Audit committee, responsible banking, sustainability and culture committee, and innovation and technology committee.

Skills and competencies : Ms Akbari brings significant experience of technology companies. Her knowledge of digital transformation challenges and cybersecurity is an asset to the board. She also has extensive experience in diverse regions and knowledge of water, energy and waste management and treatment, which are of particular value to the Group's sustainability policy.

| Juan CarlosBarrabés Cónsul           
 Non-executive director (independent) |

Board member since 2024.

Nationality : Spanish. Born in 1970 in Huesca, Spain.

Education :