Víctor Matarranz

Senior Executive Vice President and Global Head of Wealth Management & Insurance

Victor Matarranz is Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Wealth Management & Insurance at Banco Santander, leading Santander Private Banking, Santander Asset Management and Santander Insurance globally. The Wealth Management & Insurance division, one of the 5 global businesses in which Santander Group is organized, operates in most of the Santander Group countries, being the main ones Spain, Brazil, USA, Mexico, Uruguay, United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Portugal, Poland and Switzerland. Victor is the Executive Chairman of Santander Asset Management and a board Member of Banco Santander International, Santander Insurance and Zurich Santander Insurance.

Between 2014 and 2017, he was the Head of Group Strategy and Head of the Executive Chairman’s Office at Banco Santander, articulating the Group’s overall strategy and strategic and inorganic projects.

Prior to that, he was the Director of Strategy and Chief of Staff to the CEO in Santander UK, where he spent more than 2 years shaping the Strategy of the bank and leading the innovation group.

Before joining Santander in early 2012, Victor was a partner at McKinsey & Company, working in retail banking in Spain, Portugal, UK, US, Chile, Mexico and Brazil. He led the retail distribution and multichannel initiatives in Europe.

Victor holds a Telecommunications Engineer degree by the Polytechnic University of Madrid and an MBA from London Business School. He is married with 2 children and loves music, technology and motorsports.