Our team
Top management
Alberto Rivero
Alberto Rivero joined Santander as Head of Corporate & Investment Banking Peru in September 2019.
Prior to that he was a senior partner in 3XD Capital in Peru, focusing on M&A and structured finance. Previously, he worked in investment banking roles in Deutsche Bank, BBVA and Citibank.
Alberto holds a degree in Business Administration from Universidad del Pacífico and an MBA from London Business School.
Alejandro Capote Garza
Alejandro Capote is the Head of Santander’s Corporate and Investment Banking division in Mexico. He joined SCIB on 2021 as Head of Banking and Corporate Finance.
Alejandro is a professional with over 24 years of experience in banking. Before joining Santander he worked for several international financial institutions such as Credit Suisse, UBS and Evercore. Most recently he was Country Head at Lazard in Mexico.
He holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Andrés Trautmann
Andrés is the head of Santander CIB Chile and head of Markets Chile.
Andrés joined Santander in 2018 from Goldman Sachs, where he spent 5 years running Emerging Markets sales in New York. Previously, he spent more than 6 years at Santander, both in London and Chile.
Antony Hung
Antony Hung is the Regional Head for Asia Pacific of Santander Group and is responsible for the Group’s business in Asia Pacific, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Before his current role, Antony was Asia-Pacific Head of Global Banking and Markets and, prior to joining Banco Santander, he was President for Asia excluding Japan for Capula Investment Management Asia Limited and Chairman of its Asia Investment Committee.
Previously, he worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Global Wealth Management as well as a member of the Global Wealth Management Executive Committee and Asia-Pacific Executive Committee.
Antony was also previously Head of Fixed-Income, Currencies and Commodities for the Pacific Rim region at Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 1993 from Salomon Brothers Asia, where he was Vice-President in Fixed-Income Sales. Before that, Antony held senior positions at CEF Capital Ltd and Exxon Chemical Asia Pacific Ltd.
Antony holds a BBA(Hons) and an MBA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of CPA and a member the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK.
Catalina Laurens
With a career of more than 22 years in banking, Catalina has a deep understanding of the competitive landscape, opportunities, and market dynamics in Colombia.
She joined Santander in 2019 after working in a number of senior positions for HSBC and Citibank in Colombia.
Darren Jones
Darren Jones is the global head of Banking & Corporate Finance. 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.