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June 2024
SANTANDER UK PLC AND
SANTANDER UK GROUP HOLDINGS PLC - BOARD CHANGE
David Gledhill - Appointment
as Independent Non-Executive Director
Santander UK plc and Santander UK
Group Holdings plc announce the appointment of David Gledhill as
an Independent Non-Executive Director with
effect from 1 September 2024.
David is a Non-Executive Director of
Singapore Airlines and the Institute of Systems Science, National
University of Singapore with significant experience in financial
services, retail banking and digital transformation. He has held
various senior leadership roles in the financial services industry,
including Group Chief Information Officer and Head of Technology
and Operations at DBS Bank in Singapore, spending over a decade in
that role.
Santander UK Chairman, William Vereker said:
"I
am delighted to welcome David to the Boards of Santander UK. He
brings a breadth of experience which will add value to our plans to
transform our business and I am looking forward to working with
him."
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Additional information about Santander UK and
Banco Santander
Santander UK is a financial services provider
in the UK that offers a wide range of personal and commercial
financial products and services. At 31 December 2023, the bank had
around 19,800 employees and serves around 14 million active
customers, 7 million digital customers via a nationwide 444 branch
network, telephone, mobile and online banking. Santander UK is
subject to the full supervision of the FCA and the PRA in the UK.
Santander UK plc customers' eligible deposits are protected by the
FSCS in the UK.
Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a
leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain
and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization.
The group's activities are consolidated into five global
businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Digital Consumer Bank,
Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management &
Insurance and Payments (PagoNxt and Cards). This operating model
allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global
scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open
financial services platform providing services to individuals,
SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The
bank's purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a
simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more
responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support
this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing
between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2024, Banco
Santander had €1.3 trillion in total funds, 166 million customers,
8,400 branches and 211,000 employees.