Ms. Carina Szpilka Lázaro earned a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid (ICADE) and an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa. She began her professional career in the financial sector working at Banco Santander and Argentaria (now part of BBVA). In 1998 she was part of the team that founded ING Direct in Spain, where she occupied the position of CEO from 2010 to 2013, having previously occupied the same position in ING Direct France from 2008 to 2010. She is currently an independent director at Abanca and at Meliá Hotels International, as well as a partner at KFund Venture Capital and a member of the Advisory Board of Reparalia and of Oracle España. Since the beginning of 2014 she has been vice-president of UNICEF in Spain. She is also a member of the Professional Board of ESADE. In 2011 she was given the "Female Executive of the Year" award by the Spanish Federation of Female Directors, Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs (Federación Española de Mujeres Directivas - FEDEPE).

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