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.

Niels Ackerman is the head of Santander CIB and head of Banking in the Netherlands.

Niels has over 28 years of relevant Investment Banking experience. Prior to joining Santander CIB in 2020 to set up the Amsterdam branch, he spent 12 years with Deutsche Bank in London and Amsterdam with responsibility for the Benelux Corporate Finance and Institutional Client business as well as leadership roles managing EMEA Corporate Banking Coverage and Western Europe Capital Markets & Treasury Solutions. Prior to that Niels worked at Lehman Brothers, UBS Warburg and Merrill Lynch. 

Niels has a Master’s degree in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where he was also an assistant teacher in Finance and Investments.

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.

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.

Tobias Heilmaier is the Country Head Germany (including Branch Manager Germany) of Santander CIB and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Nordic Countries. 

He joined Santander CIB in 2022 from JP Morgan, where he served as co-head of Investment Banking Germany. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs in different roles and teams for 11 years, with his last position being Head of EMEA Chemicals. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2016. 

Tobias started his career at UBS Investment Bank and holds a Diplom-Kaufmann from the University of Bamberg.

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.

Mariano is head of Santander CIB Argentina.

With an international career spanning over more than 25 years in banking, Mariano has spent a large portion of his career in NY, where he worked for several international financial institutions as well as for Cargill. He joined Santander US in 2011 and relocated to Buenos Aires in 2018 where he held several roles, the most recent as head of Banking & Corporate Finance Argentina for the last three years.