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...p for Spanish listed companies Ana María is also the founder of Openbank –Grupo Santander– (leading Internet bank in Spain and second in Europe) and Open value, the first Spanish online broker with Merrill Lynch. Ana María has great experience in new technologies and the Internet, and was Chairwoman of Viaplus and Razona, as well as Executive Vice-President at Indra.
Ana María currently belongs to the Supervising Councils of ABN AMRO Bank, British American Tobacco and Service Point. She has also been Managing Director of Reckitt-Benckiser and has held various management positions in companies such as P&G, Playtex, Schweppes and Banco Banesto. She is also a strategic Advisor to esure, a leading Internet insurance company in the UK.
She is also vice-president of the José Félix Llopis Latin American Art Foundation, and has been a part of the Board of Consultants for Electronic Administration to the Spanish Ministry of Public Administrations, since 2006.
Ana María has received recognition and awards such as the International Women’s Forum “Women who make a difference” award 2007, in Chicago. Leader of the IWF leadership program 2007-2008, she was also mentioned by The Times as one of the 100 most influential executives in the UK, and, in 2005, The Mail ranked her 24th on its list of most influential women in the UK. She won Openbank's Award for Financial Executive of the year in 1995, and Institut Catalá's Donna award in 1997, as well as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001, etc.
Ana Maria is one of the most outstanding speakers on finance, innovation and internet around the world. She has been part of conferences, Meetings, MBAS, Business Forums, and Universities, National and International. Author of articles in different Spanish newspapers and Magazines as well as special” Women in the Spanish economy and Corporate Governance’ chapters and analysis for several books.
She graduated with a Summa Cum Laude Physics Major, and Mathematics Minor at Maryland University, College Park MD, US in 1972, and in 1977 was awarded a Cum Laude PhD and MS in Materials Science Engineering University of Berkeley, California.
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