Edgar Mayoral Palanca

With extensive professional experience in management positions in banking, and in the academic sector within strategy, Edgar Mayoral combines a management and teaching profile. Within IE Business School he has taught for years the courses of “Competitive and Corporate Strategy”, and “Strategy Implementation” in several senior management programs, such as the SMP, and also in the Executive MBA. “Professional experience is essential to help students go beyond theory and propose strategies that can be successfully implemented in the organization,” he says.

Edgar is an Aeronautical Engineer from the Polytechnical University of Madrid and has a PhD in communication and digital marketing from the U.C.M. Previously he completed an M.B.A at the I.E.S.E and Kellogg School of Management. Among his areas of interest are digital transformation, internationalization processes, as well as personal strategy.

Edgar has been part of the senior management team of Grupo Santander for years. He has led several global businesses, and led areas of strategy and corporate development. He is currently Executive Vice President and a member of the executive committee of Digital Consumer Bank, one of the group’s five global divisions. Among others, his team leads the global agreements the group has with car manufacturers in 26 countries, where Santander is the global leader.

Previously, he was Managing Director heading Strategy and Corporate Development in CIB (Corporate Investment Banking), another of Santander’s five global divisions. “Corporate banking is a privileged place to know deeply many clients in very relevant sectors, and to be actively involved in their strategic development,” he says.

Edgar has lived in New York, London, Lisbon, Brussels and Madrid, and is the father of three children. He is passionate about traveling and getting to know other cultures, as well as skiing and mountain biking. Edgar is a member of the board of Directors of two Financial Joint Ventures in the UK and Germany.

Corporate Experience

• Executive Vice President, Digital Consumer Bank. Santander. Spain. 2009 - Present

• Managing Director, Strategy and Corporate Development. Corporate Investment Banking. Santander. Spain. 2003 - 2008

• Executive Director, Corporate Clients. Santander Global Markets. Spain 2002 - 2003

• CEO, Centradia. UK, 2000 - 2001

• Vice President, Santander Financial Products. USA, 1994 - 1999

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Professor of Strategy, IE University. Spain, 2001 - Present.

• Associate Professor of Strategy, Universidad Carlos III. España, 2000 - 2001

• Research Assistant. The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Belgium, 1989

Academic Background

• PhD, Communication and Digital Marketing. U.C.M. Spain, 2024

• MBA, IESE & Kellogg School of Management. Spain & USA, 1990 - 1991

• Aeronautical Engineer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Spain, 1989