Conor leads Santander’s UK Corporate and Investment Banking business and is also Head of Santander London Branch (SLB). 

Conor has worked at Santander since January 2019. Previously he led the global DCM and Syndicated Loan businesses. Prior to that he held similar roles at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. He has worked on almost $500bn of bond and loan issues over a 20 year career in banking. 

In 2009/10, Conor took a sabbatical from banking to work as Chief of Staff to Greg Clark, the Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary and helped to write the Energy Security and Climate Change manifestos for the victorious 2010 Conservative election campaign. Conor is a member of the Irish government’s Global Irish Network, and of the Campaign Committee of the London Irish Centre. 

Conor graduated from University College Cork in 1998 with an MSc in Finance. Conor lives in London with his wife and three children.

Darren Jones is the head of Global Banking. He is a member of the CIB Global Executive Committee and the Banking & Corporate Finance Global Executive Committee.

Darren joined Santander in January 2018 as Head of UK Banking & Corporate Finance. Prior to this, Darren spent over 30 years with Barclays, where he was Head of UK & Ireland Corporate Finance within the Investment Banking Division. Darren was responsible for raising over $400bn in debt and equity for clients in many transformational transactions. He also held a number of senior management positions, including Global Head of Structured Trade and Export Finance and Head of Capital Strategy, EMEA. Darren joined Barclays Capital in the late 1990’s from Barclays Group, where he had held a number of strategy, client management and senior project roles, both within the UK and overseas.

David joined Santander in August of 2023 as Head of CIB US and was appointed Directing Officer of Banco Santander SA New York Branch in January of 2024.  David has over 30 years’ experience in investment banking, having spent significant time in senior roles at Credit Suisse (CS) where he most recently was Global Head of Equity and Debt Capital Markets.   David was a member of various committees, including Global Investment Banking Management Committee, Equity Valuation Committee, Reputational Risk Committee, and Managing Director Promotion Committee.  

David joined CS in 1994, where he focused primarily on equity products. He ran the bank's US Equity Syndicate desk, Global Equity Syndicate, US and later Global Equity Capital Markets, and served on multiple local management committees. Prior to joining CS, David spent five years at Lehman Brothers. 

David was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a BA in Political Science.

In June 2010, Fabrizio has been appointed as Senior Banker and Head of Corporate & Investment Bank of Banco Santander – FIG Italy & Poland.

Fabrizio worked as Managing Director for Crédit Agricole from 2007 to 2010. As head of Coverage, he was in charge of a team responsible for origination with Italian Banks on Corporate and Investment Banking products. In Société Générale as Director, he was responsible for the coverage of Banks, Insurance Companies, Asset Managers, Banking Foundations and other Italian Financial Institutions.

Prior to Société Générale, Fabrizio spent 9 years at Citigroup’s Global Corporate & Investment Bank, where he held various positions in both FIG Coverage and Transaction banking as Country Specialist for Italy, Austria, Belgium and Netherland. Fabrizio has also joined BNP Paribas and JP Morgan in the Securities Lending Department. 

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Università Bocconi. He studied Business and Finance at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Ignacio joined Santander in 1994. For the last 30 years, he has held positions of responsibility within SCIB, both at a global level and in Brazil, where he headed the business for six years. Since 2016, he has been in charge of the Global Debt Financing business and is currently Board member of Banco Santander Peru, and of Caceis Bank.

Ignacio holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business with a major in Finance from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Laurence Boone is the head of Santander CIB France (including Branch Manager France) and head of Banking France. 

Laurence has an extensive track record in both the private and public sectors. With a background in economics, she has held senior positions in various international financial institutions, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, and AXA. 

She has also held senior positions in the public sector serving as Special Advisor on Multilateral and European Economic and Financial Affairs to President François Hollande, Deputy Secretary General and Chief Economist of the OECD and most recently Minister of State for Europe of the French Republic. 

She holds a Master´s degree in Econometrics from the Université Paris X Nanterre – France and a PhD in Econometrics from the London Business School.