Gracia López Granados

Gracia holds a Degree in Business Administration in Finance from C.U.N.E.F. (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros); Certificate Programme in Corporate Governance (IC-A) and Digital Business Executive Programme (ISDI).

She is Senior Advisor at STJ, leading specialist Equity Capital Markets advisory; and Independent Director at Avalmadrid S.A., chairing the Audit Committee and the Appointments and Remunerations Committee.

With more than 25 years-experience in the financial sector, she started her professional career at JP Morgan’s Capital Markets division in London. After that, she joined Credit Suisse Financial Products (later Credit Suisse First Boston), and in 2000 she moved to Morgan Stanley’s Structured Credit team where she became Executive Director. Upon her return to Spain, she joined Cajamadrid (later Bankia) where, after several executive positions, she became a staff member in the Office of the Chairman. Thereafter, she briefly took the role of CFO at Martinsa Fadesa and, later, she spent five years as a senior advisor at Apollo Management. She was a non-executive director at Hijos de J Barreras, a Vigo based shipyard that filed for creditor protection in 2019 and reached a successful Restructuring Agrement with financial creditors in 2020.