The Coca-Cola Co. added Santander UK plc CEO, global banking leader and noted philanthropist Ana Botín to its board of directors.
Santander is one of Britain’s big personal financial services companies and is a subsidiary of the Santander Group, the largest bank in the Eurozone.
Botín has led corporate and investment strategies at JP Morgan in New York, established and headed Santander’s International Corporate Banking business in Latin America, and been executive chairman of Spain’s Banco Español de Crédito.
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola also said she has Internet technology experience, having partnered with internet entrepreneurs in an IT consultancy firm that she grew and sold to Indra.
Botín is the founder and vice chairman of Empresa y Crecimiento Foundation, which finances small- and medium-sized companies in Latin America; founder and chairman of the Conocimiento y Desarrollo Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the contribution of universities to economic and social development; and founder and chairman of EmpiezaPorEducar Foundation, the Spanish member of the global “Teach For America” network.