The Board of Directors of CaixaBank proposes to the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting the re-election of Tomás Muniesa as a director

• It has also agreed to propose the appointment of Ana María García Fau as a CaixaBank independent director for a four-year term, to fill the vacancy left by Amparo Moraleda Martínez
• The re-election of Eduardo Javier Sanchiz will also be submitted to the Annual General Meeting, together with the ratification of the appointment by co-option of Pablo Forero as an independent director, as resolved by the Board at today’s meeting
• The proposed composition of the Company’s Board of Directors maintains the same structure, with 15 members, of whom 10 — representing 67% of the total — are independent directors

The Board of Directors of CaixaBank has resolved to propose to the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting the re-election of Tomás Muniesa as a proprietary director, at the proposal of ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation, for a four-year term. Tomás Muniesa has served as Chair of the Board since 2025. 

It will likewise propose the appointment of Ana María García Fau as an independent director of CaixaBank for a four-year term, to fill the vacancy left by Amparo Moraleda Martínez, who has tendered her resignation as a director with effect from the conclusion of the forthcoming Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, as twelve years will have elapsed since her initial appointment on April 2014.

At its meeting held today in Valencia, the Board also resolved to appoint Pablo Arturo Forero Calderón as a director by co-option, with the status of independent director, and to submit the ratification of his appointment to the next Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting. Until now, Pablo Arturo Forero Calderón had been classified as an “other external” director. 

Furthermore, it has decided to propose to the General Meeting the re-election of Eduardo Javier Sanchiz as an independent director for a four-year term. 

With these proposed appointments and re-elections, which will be submitted for approval at the Annual General Meeting to be held on 27 March, the Board of Directors of CaixaBank will maintain the same structure of 15 members, of whom 10 — representing 67% of the total — will be independent directors. Female directors will continue to account for 40% of the Board.

Following these proposals, the composition of the Board of Directors of CaixaBank would be as follows: Tomás Muniesa, Chairman of CaixaBank and proprietary director; Gonzalo Gortázar, CEO; independent directors Eduardo Javier Sanchiz Irazu, Luis Álvarez Satorre, María Verónica Fisas Vergés, Pablo Arturo Forero Calderón, Rosa María García Piñeiro, Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal, Peter Löscher, Bernardo Sánchez Incera, Koro Usarraga Unsain and Ana María García Fau; proprietary directors José María Méndez Álvarez-Cedrón and Teresa Santero Quintilla; and “other external” director Fernando María Costa Duarte Ulrich.  

Curriculum vitae of Ana María García Fau

She holds a BA in Economics and Business Administration and a BA in Law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE, E-3) in Madrid, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, United States.

She is currently a non-executive director of Acerinox (since May 2025) and Cellnex Telecom (since July 2022), and NED at Gestamp Automoción (since March 2017) and JDE Peet’s (Dutch listed company, since May 2022). 

She is likewise a member of the Advisory Board of several companies: Pictet Wealth Management Iberia (since 2019), the Cosentino Group (since December 2023) and Fremman Capital. She also happens to be a member of the Advisory Board of the ESADE Business School Corporate Governance Centre, a trustee of Fundación Universitaria Comillas-ICAI, Co-Chair of Women Corporate Directors in Spain, and a member of the Executive Committee of Círculo de Empresarios.

Regarding her professional career, she has held positions at organisations such as McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Wolff Olins, Telefónica and Hibu / Yell Group. During her career at the Telefónica Group, she held executive positions at TPI-Páginas Amarillas as Director of Planning, Managing Director of Corporate development and International operations, and Managing Director of Finance and Corporate development (CFO) between 1997 and 2006. She also held senior executive positions at Yell Group between 2006 and 2014, ultimately serving as Vice Chair and CEO Spain, LatAm and US Hispanic, as well as Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer at Hibu (Ex-Yell) 

In recent years, she has served as a director at companies including Merlin Properties (REIT), Eutelsat Communications (France), Euskaltel, Technicolor (France), Renovalia Energy Group, Globalvia Investments, Santalucía Group and DLA Piper (United Kingdom), and as Non-Executive Chairperson of Finerge (Portugal). She has also been a member of the Advisory Board of Salesforce.