The latest steps from the corporate world: Santander, Grey, Unipar and MODO

With the beginning of the year the corporate market is reorganizing itself. Here are the latest subscriptions from the main companies in the country:

José Bandín replaces Silvia Tenazinha at Banco Santander

Santander Argentina nominated José Bandinwho was senior manager of Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) as Senior Manager of Retail & Commercial Banking (R&CB) and Wealth Management & Insurance, in place of Silvia Tenazine, who led the transformation of Santander’s Commercial Banking for 5 years and who took up the role of general manager of Salesforce Argentina this month. Bandín will report globally Daniele Barriuso (Retail & Commercial Banking) now Vittorio Matarranz from Wealth Management & Insurance, and at a local level he will continue as a member of the Management Committee to which he reports Alessandro Butti, CEO of Santander Argentina.

The manager, who has been working in Santander for 35 years, is a public accountant, graduated from the Catholic University of la Plata, and also has a master’s degree in Finance from the University of Belgrano.

Bandín will retain his responsibilities as head of Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) on an interim basis, until a successor is appointed in that area.

MODO has a new Chief Technology Officer

MODO, the virtual wallet in which more than 35 banks participate, got its name Sebastiano Rosenbolt AS Technical director. The manager has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, with a strong technical focus, including backend, frontend, mobile, BI, data and product.

Rosenbolt comes from working as Chief Technology Officer at ClicOH; as Vice President of Engineering at Despegar and as a developer in the teams of several companies such as Globant, Thomson Reuters and TECNA.

He is a system engineer from the National Technological University (UTN) and is also a professor at the same institution for the subject “Advanced Technologies in Software Construction”.

Marco Milesi will lead Gray in Buenos Aires

Marco Milesi lands in Buenos Aires as CEO of Gray Argentina AND Responsible for borderless operations. The creative, until now CEO of Gray Latam, settles in the Argentine capital to manage the Grey’s office following the departure of Denise Orman and to promote the global operations of Gray Borderless from the Buenos Aires Hub.

Milesi will drive alongside him Diego Medvedocky, president of Gray Argentina, one of the emblematic creative agencies of the network. In 2023, broke his all-time Cannes Lions record with eight lions achieved and its local and regional business activities have strengthened with projects for InBev in various parts of Latin America, Pernod Ricard, IKEA in Chile and Cola-Cola, among other large advertisers.

At the same time Milesi will also hold the position of Responsible for operations without borders, a new global role whose focus will be to expand and consolidate the Buenos Aires office as the global operations center for Gray’s Borderless mode to encourage this business model that offers attention to the needs of network customers with cost efficiency and talent without borders, working remotely and agilely from any of 33 gray offices across the planet.

Changes at the top of Unipar

Unipar, producer of chlorine, caustic soda and PVC, designated as CEO TO Rodrigo Canaval, who has until now held the role of industrial executive director in Brazil. This decision kicks off the transition with the current CEO, also Brazilian Mauricio Russomanno, who will expire in April. With this new phase, one of the largest investment cycles in the company’s history begins.

Graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, he has a postgraduate diploma in Production Engineering from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) and an MBA in Marketing from the prestigious IBE-FGV Campinas business school. The executive will have to lead projects already announced, such as the modernization of chlorine and caustic soda production plants in Argentina and Brazil.