Biography

• Born in 1972 in in Cartagena (Spain)
• Holds a dual degree in Law, Economics and Business Administration (ICADE, Madrid) and a PhD in Quantitative Methods and Financial Markets (ICADE, Madrid)
• Career: After working as an associate in derivatives at Deutsche Bank, she became CIO/CFO at Telvent (a venture capital fund focused on TMT) and then country manager for Spain and Portugal at Bear Stearns. Between 2006 and 2014, she worked for Barclays Capital in various senior positions. Alicia then became a partner at Olympo Capital, a private equity firm, after which she moved in 2015 to Wells Fargo Securities where she became the CEO for EMEA (until 2020). She was CEO and Founder of Momentus Securities, an ESG focused broker dealer based in NYC and a member of the Board of Banco Sabadell and TSB between 2020 and 2025. Alicia is currently an independent Board Member of Ferrovial and Energias de Portugal (EDP) and she is a Fellow Professor in the Institute of Finance and Technology MSc program on Digital Banking at the Faculty of Civil Engineering (University College London) and a guest lecturer at IESE`s MBA program
• In the BoD of KBC Group: Non-executive director; Independent director, Member of the Audit Committee; Member of the Remuneration Committee and member of the RCC