Christiana Riley is Regional Head of North America at Banco Santander, a position she started in October 2023.[1]
Early life and education
Riley grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Greenwich High School in 1996.[2] In 2000, she attended Princeton University, where she majored in Romance languages and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 2005 she completed her Masters of Business Administration at the London Business School.[3][4]
Career
Riley's professional career began in 2000 at the investment bank Greenhill & Co., where she worked as an analyst in the New York office and later relocated to Frankfurt.[5] From there she moved to the consulting firm McKinsey, where she worked from 2004 to 2006 as an associate.[6]
In 2006, Riley began working at Deutsche Bank. There she first worked in the strategy department, which she headed from 2011 to 2015.[7] In 2019 the Wall Street Journal reported she was proposed as the next CEO for the Americas region.,[8][9] and she was appointed to that role in late 2019. On January 1, 2020, she joined the Management Board of Deutsche Bank, the only woman to serve on the board[10] in her official role as Chief Executive Officer for DB USA Corp with responsibility for the Americas region.[11] The Financial Times named her one of the ten key figures on Wall Street in 2020.[12] Riley's work at Deutsche Bank included considering investments in Mexico[13] and working to bring people back to the company's USA offices during the COVID-19 pandemic.[14][15] She condemned the attack on the Capitol in Washington by Donald Trump supporters[16] in a LinkedIn post that was covered by the media.[17][18]
Christiana joined Santander in 2023 as Regional Head of North America, responsible for all Santander businesses in Mexico and the United States. She is also a member of the board of PagoNxt, a leading payment solution provider for merchants, international corporates, SMEs, and consumers, fully owned by Santander.[19]
Personal
In 2004 she married Christopher Bruce Riley.[20] Riley has two children.[21]
^Strasburg, Jenny (19 June 2019). "Executive Turnover Clouds Deutsche Bank's Wall Street Future; Christiana Riley is internal choice to replace Tom Patrick in top U.S. role". Wall Street Journal (Online); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y] – via ProQuest.
