Christiana Riley

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Christiana Riley
NationalityAmerican
EducationPrinceton University
OccupationBusiness executive
TitleRegional Head of North America at Banco Santander
SpouseChristopher Bruce Riley
Children2

Christiana Riley is Regional Head of North America at Banco Santander, a position she started in October 2023.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

In 2004 she married Christopher Bruce Riley.[20] Riley has two children.[21]

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7114621753212948480/
  2. ^ Stout, David (June 15, 1995). "Dismayed Greenwich Confronts a Message of Hate in a Yearbook". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Dorner, Astrid (January 5, 2020). "Christiana Riley im Porträt: Die neue Amerikachefin der Deutschen Bank muss die Kunden beruhigen". www.handelsblatt.com (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  4. ^ Mußler, Hanno (2020-02-04). "Ein frisches Gesicht für die Deutsche Bank". Frankfurter Allgemeine.
  5. ^ Nicole Nitsche (2020-12-20). "The female stars of the finance, payment and banking industry". Payment & Banking.
  6. ^ Bernau, Patrick (2019-07-14). "Eine neue Frau für den Deutsche-Bank-Vorstand". Frankfurter Allgemeine.
  7. ^ "No Turning Back: Christiana Riley on leading Deutsche Bank USA on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. April 27, 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Armstrong and, Robert; Aliaj, Ortenca (2019-10-24). "'Unbridled global expansion' over for banks, says Deutsche US boss". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  10. ^ Christian Kirchner (2021-03-30). "Die Vorstands-Rochade bei der Deutschen Bank auf einen Blick". finanz-szene.de.
  11. ^ "Campelli verantwortet zwei Deutsche-Bank-Sparten". spiegel.de. 2021-03-30.
  12. ^ Noonan, Laura (2020-01-03). "Ten people set to shape Wall Street in 2020". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  13. ^ "Deutsche Bank AG sees an opportunity in Mexico where other investment banks don't - Monterrey Daily Post". Mexico Daily Post. 2023-02-22. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  14. ^ Goldberg, Emma (2022-06-09). "A Full Return to the Office? Does 'Never' Work for You?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  15. ^ Song, Zijia; Basak, Sonali. "Deutsche Bank Americas CEO announces return of 5,000 employees to New York City". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  16. ^ Newmyer, Tory (January 5, 2021). "Wall Street urges GOP to accept election results even as some donate to Georgia Republicans". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  17. ^ English, Simon (January 12, 2021). "Deutsche Bank backs away from Trump after 'dark day'". The London Evening Standard (London, England).
  18. ^ "Deutsche Bank will keine Geschäfte mehr mit Trump machen" (in German). Manager magazin. 2021-01-12.
  19. ^ https://www.santander.com/en/about-us/where-we-are/north-america/christiana-riley
  20. ^ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Christiana Phillips Christopher Riley". The New York Times. 2004-08-29.
  21. ^ Jacobs, Emma; Noonan, Laura (June 26, 2020). "Is the coronavirus crisis taking women back to the 1950s?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2023-04-17.