Birth Name: Ana Patricia Bot\u00edn-Sanz de Sautuola O’ Shea<\/p>\n
Place of Birth: Santander, Cantabria, Spain<\/p>\n
Date of Birth: 4 October, 1960<\/p>\n
Ethnicity: Spanish [including Andalusian, Castilian, and Cantabrian], Basque, 1\/16th Irish, 1\/16th Uruguayan [Basque, possibly other], as well as small amounts of French [including Breton], more distant Dutch and Portuguese<\/strong><\/p>\n Ana Bot\u00edn\u00a0is a Spanish banker. On 10 September, 2014, she was appointed executive chairman of Santander Group,\u00a0the fourth generation of the Bot\u00edn family to hold this role. Prior to this she was CEO of Santander UK, a role she held from December 2010.<\/p>\n In 2017, Bot\u00edn was ranked by\u00a0Forbes<\/em>\u00a0magazine as the ninth most powerful woman in the world.<\/p>\n Bot\u00edn is the daughter of Spanish banker Emilio Bot\u00edn-Sanz de Sautuola y Garc\u00eda de los R\u00edos, who was the executive chairman of Spain’s Grupo Santander, and Paloma O’Shea Arti\u00f1ano, a pianist, patron of the arts,\u00a0founder and current president of the Reina Sof\u00eda School of Music.<\/p>\n Ana is married to banker Guillermo Moren\u00e9s Mari\u00e1tegui, whose father is the Marquis of Borghetto. The couple has three children.<\/p>\n Bot\u00edn’s paternal grandfather was Emilio Bot\u00edn y Sanz de Sautuola (the son of Emilio Bot\u00edn L\u00f3pez and Mar\u00eda Sanz de Sautuola y Escalante). Emilio was the son of Emilio Jos\u00e9 Bot\u00edn Aguirre de Laurenc\u00edn and Elena L\u00f3pez de la Sota. Mar\u00eda was the daughter of Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y Pedrueca and Concepci\u00f3n Escalante Prieto.<\/p>\n Bot\u00edn’s paternal grandmother was Ana Garc\u00eda de los R\u00edos y Caller (the daughter of Gonzalo Garc\u00eda de los R\u00edos y Pedraja and Carolina Caller y Donesteve). Gonzalo was the son of Floriano Garc\u00eda de los R\u00edos and Pilar de la Pedraja Cedr\u00fan. Carolina was the daughter of Francisco Caller and Elvira Donesteve de la Pedraja.<\/p>\n Bot\u00edn’s maternal grandfather was Jos\u00e9 O’Shea Sebasti\u00e1n de Erice (the son of Juan Guillermo O’Shea Verdes Montenegro and Carmen Sebasti\u00e1n y de Erice). Juan Guillermo was the son of Guillermo O’Shea y Hurtado de Corcuera and Mar\u00eda del Carmen Pilar Verdes-Montenegro Verdes-Montenegro. Carmen was the daughter of C\u00e1ndido Sebasti\u00e1n y Duque and Vicenta de Erice y Novella.<\/p>\n Bot\u00edn’s maternal grandmother was Mar\u00eda de la Asunci\u00f3n de Arti\u00f1ano y Luz\u00e1rraga (the daughter of Gervasio \u00c1ngel Mar\u00eda Eulalio Juan de Arti\u00f1ano y Gad\u00e1lcano and Flora Luz\u00e1rraga). Gervasio was the son of Ar\u00edstedes Ram\u00f3n Antonio Arti\u00f1ano Zuricalday and Mar\u00eda Concepci\u00f3n Herm\u00f3genes Gad\u00e1lcano Avellaneda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1811,3604,846,987,1925,801,691,716,687,706,756,896],"class_list":["post-235264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-celebs","tag-andalusian","tag-b1960","tag-basque","tag-breton","tag-cantabrian","tag-castilian","tag-dutch","tag-french","tag-irish","tag-portuguese","tag-spanish","tag-uruguayan"],"yoast_head":"\n