BBVA Group named Luisa Gomez Bravo as CFO. She currently is the Global Head of Corporate Investment Banking (CIB), the group's wholesale banking unit. Gomez Bravo will replace Rafael Salinas Martinez de Lecea, who is stepping down from his executive duties after a successful career with the bank spanning over three decades.

He will continue to be involved with the Group as a board member of Garanti BBVA. Luisa Gomez Bravo started her professional career at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, before joining BBVA more than two decades ago. Since then, she has held several positions of responsibility, including Head of Business Development for Retail Banking in Spain; CFO, and Head of Risk and Corporate Development in BBVA Consumer Finance unit; Global Head of BBVA AM; Head of Transformation Operations at BBVA Spain and Portugal; Head of Investors Shareholders Relations; Head of Investment Cost Management, and since late 2018, Global Head of CIB.