International advisory board

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

POSITION NAME BACKGROUND
Chair Lawrence H. Summers Former Secretary of the US Treasury and President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University.
Members Sheila C. Bair Former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and former President of Washington College.
Francisco D’Souza Managing Partner and co-founder at Recognize.
Carolyn Everson Director at The Coca-Cola Company, The Walt Disney Company and Under Armour. Former president of Instacart and former vice-president of Global Business Group at Facebook (Meta).
José Fernández da Ponte President and Chief Growth Officer of the Stellar Development Foundation. Former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies at PayPal.
Juan Ignacio Gallardo Thurlow Chair of Organización Cultiba, Grupo Azucarero México and Grupo GEPP (PepsiCo bottling company in Mexico).
George Kurtz Founder of CrowdStrike. Former Chief Technology Officer of McAfee.
Mike Rhodin Director of Acoustic. Former board member of Tom Tom,  Symbotic, Precisely and HZO, and former Senior Vice President of IBM.
Nadia Schadlow Senior fellow of Hudson Institute and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy and former Assistant to the President of the United States.
James Whitehurst Chair of Unity Technologies, former president of IBM and CEO of Red Hat.
Secretary Jaime Pérez Renovales