Ana Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, born in 1960 in Santander, is a Spanish businesswoman. Since December 2010 she has served as CEO of Santander UK, the British banking subsidiary of the Santander Group. Botín was previously executive chairman of the Spanish bank, Banco Español de Crédito, having also worked for seven years at JP Morgan in the United States. In 1988, she came back to Spain and began working for the Santander Group.
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Ana Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, born in 1960 in Santander, is a Spanish businesswoman. Since December 2010 she has served as CEO of Santander UK, the British banking subsidiary of the Santander Group. Botín was previously executive chairman of the Spanish bank, Banco Español de Crédito, having also worked for seven years at JP Morgan in the United States. In 1988, she came back to Spain and began working for the Santander Group.
In 2000 she founded "Suala Capital", a Venture Capital Investment Fund, but in 2006 she resigned from it in the wake of disappointing results.
In November 2010, Ana Patricia became the successor of António Horta Osório as Chief Executive of Santander's UK Operation.
Botín studied Economics at Bryn Mawr College (U.S.A.) and went to graduate school at Harvard Business School (Harvard University), to earn her Master of Business Administration.
In 2005, Botín was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 99th most powerful woman in the world. In 2009, she was...
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