Madrid, 25 April 2019 – Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB), Banco Santander’s investment banking division, today announced the creation of the new role of global head of Sales to manage all the Markets Sales forces globally with a view to significantly enhancing its public securities and private asset distribution capacities. Krishna Murali, current head of Private Debt Mobilization, has been appointed to the role.

Mr. Murali will report jointly to Jose Manuel Colina and Jorge de Gortari, SCIB’s heads of Markets Activities in Europe and Americas. Institutional and Corporate Market Sales forces will report globally to him and locally to the Market heads in each country. The new structure will enable Santander’s corporate banking division to better serve its clients, fully leverage its global capabilities and accelerate its evolution to a capital-light model.

Mr. Krishna joined Santander in January 2018 from Barclays, where he ran Structuring & Execution for all Asset Divestments for the Non-Core Division. Previously, he was with Credit Suisse from 1999 to 2012, latterly as co-head of the Emerging Markets Group in CEEMEA for the Fixed Income division in London.