The purpose of Santander’s international advisory board is to provide strategic advice to the Group, with a strong focus on innovation, digital transformation, cybersecurity and new technologies. It will also deliver its insights regarding a broad variety of issues, such as capital market trends; corporate governance and talent; brand and reputation; regulatory matters and compliance; and global, customer-focused financial services. In this way, the Group benefits and receives structured and recurrent insights from international leaders who, due to other professional commitments, are not able to provide such support as members of the board. The international advisory board is expected to meet at least twice a year.
International advisory board composition
COMPOSITION | NAME | POSITION |
Chair |
Larry Summers | Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and president emeritus of Harvard University |
Members | Sheila C. Bair | Former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and former president of Washington College |
Mike Rhodin | Supervisory board member of TomTom and director of HzO. Former IBM Watson senior vice president | |
Francisco D’Souza | Director of General Electric. Former CEO of Cognizant | |
James Whitehurst | Special advisor to IBM. Former chair and CEO of Red Hat, former chief operating officer of Delta Air Lines and former partner of The Boston Consulting Group | |
George Kurtz | CEO and co-founder of CrowdStrike. Former chief technology officer of McAfee | |
Nadia Schadlow | Former deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy and former Assistant to the President of the United States | |
Andreas Dombret | Former board member of Deutsche Bundesbank, former vice chair of Bank of America in Europe and former director of Bank for International Settlements | |
Secretary | Jaime Pérez Renovales |