Azora

Founding Partner and Member of the Board

Founding partner of the Azora Group and member of the board of Azora Capital

Previously, Fernando was Chief Executive responsible for Asset Management, Private Banking and Insurance of Grupo Santander while being member of its Management Comitee, as well as a Director of several companies of Grupo Santander. He has also been a Director of the Caixa Gral Bank, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sample Test (clinical analysis laboratory and diagnosis services in Spain and Portugal), Executive Vice-Chairman of Corporacion Eólica CESA (renewable energy company), Chairman of Transmol Logística (hydrocarbons logistics and natural gas management company) and Independent Board Member of Cortefiel and Zeltia.

Fernando has a degree from Deusto University.

Founding Partner and Member of the Board

Founding partner of the Azora Group and member of the board of Azora Capital

Trustee of the ICO Foundation (Official Credit Institute), member of the Advisory Board of Think Tank Institución Futuro, member of the Editorial Board of the Vocento Group, member of the Governing Board of APD (Association of the management progress) and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chatered Surveyors.

Previously, Concha was Vice President and CEO of Santander Central Hispano Activos Inmobiliarios and President of Banif Inmobiliaria S.A. as well as President of INVERCO (Association of Collective investment institutions and Pension Funds) and Board Member of Caja Navarra.

Concha has a degree in law from Universidad Autonoma Madrid, an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa and a PDG IESE from Universidad de Navarra.

Partner

Partner

Cristina García-Peri is Head of Corporate Development and Strategy for the Azora Group.

Prior to joining the Azora Group in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment-banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions in the area of Mergers and Acquisitions for 4 years and for 10 years as Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Her last two years in investment banking took place at Merrill Lynch where, in addition to continuing to lead Corporate Equity Derivatives, she also was responsible for Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. She started her career in McKinsey in Spain.

She is also independent board member at Evo Banco in Spain, a c. €5bn asset bank with a strong focus on digital banking, where she also chairs the Risk Committee as well as the Audit Committee.

She is also member of the Circulo de Empresarios (business leaders think tank), member of the ESG Committee of INREV and is Chairwoman of Plan International in Spain, an independent and humanitarian not-for-profit organisation focused on advancing children´s right and equality for girls.

Cristina has a degree summa cum laude in economic and business sciences from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Partner

Javier joined Azora in 2007. He is the head of the residential area and  leads with Jean Marc Parnier the office segment., Javier has been leading also “special situation” transactions such as the acquisition of biggest distress corporate debt position from SAREB or the restructuring of a renewable energy company.

Prior joining Azora, Javier had a well-balanced professional experience of 15 years across different industries, working in strategic consulting (McKinsey & Co.), in the renewable energy sector (as Business Development and International MD of Corporación Eólica CEASA) and in the automotive industry (as President of the Spanish Automotive Distribution Sector).

Javier obtained a business administration degree (major in finance) from the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF) and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (dual major in strategy and operations).