Eduardo J. Escasany
Mr. Escasany obtained a degree in economics at the Universidad Católica Argentina. He was associated with Banco Galicia from 1973 to 2002. He was appointed to Banco Galicia’s Board of Directors in 1975. In 1979, he was elected as vice chairman and from 1989 to March 21, 2002 he was the chairman of Banco Galicia’s board of directors and its chief executive officer. He was elected as the vice chairman of the Argentine Bankers Association from 1989 to 1993 and chairman of said association from1993 to 2002. He was chairman of Grupo Financiero Galicia´s Board of Directors from April 2002 to June 2002. In April2005, he was re-elected as member of the Board of Directors and appointed as chairman in 2010. He is also a lifetime trustee and vice chairman of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires.
Pablo Gutierrez
Mr. Gutierrez obtained a degree in business administration at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been associated with Banco Galicia since 1985 where he served in different positions. In April 2005, he was appointed to the board of directors of Banco Galicia. Mr. Gutierrez is chairman of Tarjetas Regionales S.A., vice-president of Sudamericana Holding S.A. and Galicia Valores. , regular director of Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A., Tarjetas Cuyanas S.A., Tarjetas del Mar S.A., Tarjeta Naranja S.A. and an alternate trustee of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires. He has been an alternate director of Grupo Financiero Galicia from April 2003 to April 2010 when he was appointed as vice chairman. In April 2012 was appointed as vice chairman of Banco Galicia.
Abel Ayerza
Mr. Ayerza obtained a degree in business administration at the Universidad Católica Argentina. He was associated with Banco Galicia from 1966 to 2002. Mr. Ayerza is also the chairman of Aygalpla S.A., a lifetime trustee and second vice chairman of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires and the managing partner of Cribelco S.R.L., Crisabe S.R.L. and Huinca Cereales S.R.L. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since September, 1999.
Federico Braun
Mr. Braun obtained a degree in industrial engineering at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was associated with Banco Galicia from 1984 to 2002. Mr. Braun is also the chairman of Patagonia Logística S.A., Campos de la Patagonia S.A., Estancia Anita S.A. and S.A. Importadora and Exportadora de la Patagonia; the vice chairman of Club de Campo Los Pingüinos S.A., Inmobiliaria y Financiera “La Josefina” S.A. and Asociación de Supermercados Unidos y Mayorista Net S.A. He is a member of Asociación Empresaria Argentina and a lifetime trustee of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since September, 1999.
Antonio R. Garcés
Mr. Garcés obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been associated with Banco Galicia since 1959 and with Grupo Galicia since 2002. In April 1985, he was appointed as an alternate director of Banco Galicia. Subsequently, he was appointed as the vice chairman of Banco Galicia in September 2001, the chairman of the board of directors of Banco Galicia from March 2002 until August 2002, and then the vice chairman from August 2002 until April 2003, when he was elected as the chairman of Banco Galicia’s board of directors until 2011. From 2003 to 2010 he was chairman of Grupo Financiero Galicia. In April 2012 was appointed as a regular director of Grupo Galicia.
C. Enrique Martin
Mr. Martin obtained a degree in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was a professor at said university for more than 20 years and has a post-graduate certificate in international economics from the University of London. He was associated with Banco Galicia from 1977 until 2002 and was responsible for the International Banking Relations Department. Mr. Martin is a senior Advisor to ZEIG S.A. He is also a director of the Argentine-Chilean Chamber of Commerce and an advisor to the Canadian-Argentine Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since April 2006, and in 2012 was appointed as alternate director of Banco Galicia.
Luis Omar Oddone
Mr. Odonne obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was appointed as Grupo Financiero Galicia’s syndic from 1999 until April 2005. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since April, 2005.
Silvestre Vila Moret
Mr. Vila Moret was associated with Banco Galicia from 1997 until May 2002. Mr. Vila Moret is also vice chairman of El Benteveo S.A. and Santa Ofelia S.A. He has been a member of Grupo Financiero Galicia’s Board of Directors since June 2002.
Juan Miguel Cuattromo
Mr. Cuattromo obtained a Degree and a Master’s degree in economics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He also obtained Postgraduate Degrees from the Institute for Capacity Development (a special agency of the International Monetary Fund) and from the Escola de Administração Fazendária. Mr. Cuattromo was a professor at the UBA of several subjects such as “Macroeconomics”, “International Economy” or “Banks and Credits”. He has published a wide variety of paper works and won the first prize at the “5th Edition of the Annual Prize on Economics Research” organized by the Argentinean Central Bank. Mr. Cuattromo also worked as a consultant at the World Bank and as a special guest of the Economic and Finance Centre for Argentinean Development. Since 2005 he has served within different agencies of the Mininstry of Economics and in 2012 he was appointed director of the Foreign Analysis Agency where he still serves.
Cdor. Antonio R. Garcés
Mr. Garcés obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been associated with Banco Galicia since 1959. In April 1985, he was appointed as an alternate director of Banco Galicia. Subsequently, he was appointed as the vice chairman of Banco Galicia and in April 2003, he was elected as the chairman of Banco Galicia’s board of directors, position he held until April 2012. Aditionally, in April 2012 Mr. Garcés was elected as a regular director of Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A.. Mr. Garcés is also a lifetime trustee of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires.
María Ofelia Hordeñana de Escasany
Mrs. Hordeñana de Escasany has held several positions in different subsidiaries of Banco Galicia. She is currently the chairman of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires and Santamera S.A. She has been an alternate director of Grupo Financiero Galicia since April 2000.
Sergio Grinenco
Mr. Grinenco obtained a degree in economics at the Universidad Católica Argentina and a master’s degree in business administration from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He has been associated with Banco Galicia since 1977. He was elected as an alternate director of Banco Galicia in September 2001 and as the vice chairman in April 2003, a position he held until 2011. Mr. Grinenco is also the chairman of Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A., vice chairman of Asociación de Bancos Argentina (ADEBA), regular director of Tarjetas Regionales S.A., liquidator of Galicia Capital Markets S.A. (in liquidation) and an alternate trustee of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires. In 2012 was appointed as chairman of Banco Galicia.
Alejandro María Rojas Lagarde
Mr. Rojas obtained a degree in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has held a variety of positions at Banco Galicia since 1963. From 1965 to January 2000, he was responsible for the general counsel office of Banco Galicia. He has been an alternate director in Grupo Financiero Galicia’s Board of Directors since 2000. He is also a manager of Rojas Lagarde S.R.L., alternate director of Santiago Salud S.A. and lifetime trustee of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires.
Luis Sila Monsegur
Mr. Monsegur obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He held a variety of positions at Banco Galicia from 1962 to 1992 and is an alternate trustee of the Fundación Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires. He has been an alternate director of Grupo Financiero Galicia’s Board of Directors since 2000.
Norberto D Corizzo
Mr. Corizzo obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has developed taxes activities in companies such as López González Raimondi y Asoc., Noel y Cía and Price Waterhouse. He has been syndic at Grupo Financiero Galicia since April 2003. He has been associated with the Bank since 1977. Mr. Corizzo is also a syndic of Banco Galicia S.A., EBA Holding, Tarjetas Regionales S.A., Cobranzas Regionales S.A., Tarjeta Naranja S.A., Tarjetas Cuyanas S.A., Tarjetas del Mar S.A., Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A., and of others Banco Galicia and Grupo Financiero Galicia’s subsidiaries.
Luis A Díaz
Mr. Díaz obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has provided services to the Bank since 1965, and was elected as a syndic of Banco Galicia and Grupo Financiero Galicia at the shareholders’ meeting meetings held on April 28, 2009. Additionally, he is a syndic of Tarjetas Regionales S.A., Tarjetas del Mar S.A., Galicia Factoring y Leasing S.A. (“in liquidation”), Galicia Valores S.A. Sociedad de Bolsa, Galicia Warrants S.A., Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A. and of others Banco Galicia and Grupo Financiero Galicia’s subsidiaries.
Enrique M. Garda Olaciregui
Mr. Garda Olaciregui obtained a degree in law at the Universidad del Salvador. He has a master in Finances at Universidad del CEMA and a degree in Corporate Law at Universidad Austral. He has been associated with the Bank since 1970. He served as legal advisor to the Bank between September 2001 and April 2003. He has provided services as a Secretary Director between April 2003 and April 2010, when he was designated as regular syndic of Banco de Galicia. Additionally, he is a regular syndic at Grupo Financiero Galicia, Galicia Factoring y Leasing S.A. (“in liquidation”), Galicia Warrants S.A., Tarjetas Regionales S.A., GV Mandataria de Valores S.A., Tarjetas Cuyanas S.A., Tarjeta Naranja S.A. Tarjetas del Mar S.A., Galicia Valores S.A. Sociedad de Bolsa, Galicia Capital Markets S.A. (“in liquidation”), Cobranzas Regionales S.A., Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A. and of others Banco Galicia and Grupo Financiero Galicia’s subsidiaries.
Miguel Armando
Mr. Armando obtained a degree in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was first elected as an alternate syndic of the Bank in 1986. He is Vice-Chairman of Arnoar S.A. and member of the board of Directors of Santiago de Compostela Promotora de Seguros S.A. Mr. Armando is also a syndic of EBA Holding S.A. and an alternate syndic of Banco Galicia S.A., Grupo Financiero Galicia, Galicia Valores S.A. Sociedad de Bolsa, Tarjetas Regionales S.A. Tarjeta Naranja S.A., Tarjetas Cuyanas S.A.and Tarjetas del Mar S.A., Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A. among others.
Fernando Noetinger
Mr. Noetinger obtained a degree in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been associated with the Bank since 1987. Mr. Noetinger is also Chairman of Arnoar S.A., and an alternate syndic of EBA Holding S.A., Banco Galicia S.A., Electrigal S.A., GV Mandataria de Valores S.A., Tarjetas del Mar S.A. Tarjetas Regionales S.A., Santiago Salud S.A., Galicia Warrants S.A., Galicia Valores S.A. Sociedad de Bolsa, Galicia Factoring y Leasing S.A., Galicia Capital Markets S.A (“in liquidation”) Galicia Retiro Compañía de Seguros S.A., Galicia Seguros S.A., Sudamericana Holding S.A., Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A. and Net Investment S.A. among others.
Horacio Tedín
Mr. Tedín obtained a degree in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 1981 he founded his own law firm, which has actively worked for Banco Galicia and other big corporate clients. Mr. Tedín has been an alternate syndic of Grupo Financiero Galicia since 2006. He is also a syndic of Electrigal S.A. and an alternate syndic of EBA Holding S.A., GV Mandataria de Valores S.A., Compañía Financiera Argentina S.A., Tarjetas regionales S.A. and Galicia Administradora de Fondos S.A. Sociedad Gerente de Fondos Comunes de Inversión among others.
Pedro A. Richards
Mr. Richards obtained a degree in economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina and a master’s degree of science in management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was director of the National Development Bank (BANADE). He has been associated with the Bank since 1990. He was member of the Board of Directors of Galicia Capital Markets S.A. between 1992 and 1994, vice chairman of Net Investment S.A. between September 2001 and May 2007 and chairman of said company since April 2011. Since August 2000, he has served as Grupo Financiero Galicia’s Chief Executive Officer, position were he remains nowadays. Mr. Richards is also the vice chairman of Sudamericana Holding S.A. and Galicia Warrants S.A. and director of GV Mandataria of Valores S.A. and Galval Agente de Valores S.A.
Contact: prichards@gfgsa.com
José Luis Gentile
Mr. José Luis Gentile obtained a degree in national public accounting at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Mr. Gentile is vice-chairman of Marín S.A., Net Investment S.A., Nucleamiento Inversor S.A. and Rivadavia 5306 S.A. He is also regular director of GV Mandataria de Valores S.A., Galicia Retiro Compañía de Seguros S.A., Galicia Broker Asesores de Seguros S.A. and Galval Agente de Valores S.A. Aditionally Mr. Gentile is an alternate director of Galicia Warrants S.A. and Sudamericana Holding S.A.