Rami Aboukhair leaves García Carrión two months after his arrival as CEO

The former CEO of Banco Santander in Spain, Rami Aboukhair, has left his post as CEO of García Carrión as soon as he arrived at the end of March, according to El Confidencial and confirmed by elEconomista. and José García-Carrión, who acts as president, will nevertheless continue to be the company’s chief executive.family.

The objective of the signing of the CEO until now was to address the process of expansion and internationalization of the company, which had a turnover of more than 1,000 million euros last year. García Carrión is currently present in 150 countries.

Rami Aboukhair was working “side by side” with Rafaela Corujo, wife of José García-Carrión and co-owner of the company, and Luciano García-Carrión, their son, heir to the business and who has so far promoted its development abroad. from his position as Vice President. The sources consulted assure that his departure is due to internal discrepancies in the management of the group.

The group, owner of Don Simón, among other brands, was founded in 1890 by José García-Carrión in the Murcian town of Jumilla from the creation of a winery that exported wine to France, whose vines were at that time affected by the plague of phylloxera.

Two decades in Santander

Rami Aboukhair’s professional career is especially linked to Banco Santander, where he has developed his work for the last two decades. The announcement of his departure was made public last December. Within Aboukhair’s financial resume, he stands out brilliantly as the father of the bank’s flagship product, the now extinct ‘Cuenta 1,2,3’, a strategy he began to shape during his time at Banesto (he was marketing director), that he implemented in Santander United Kingdom and that he brought to Spain once Ana Botín acceded to the presidency of the financial group and demanded him in 2015 for the business in our country.

Since then he was CEO of the Spanish subsidiary, until last spring, when the financial group announced his replacement by the Portuguese António Simôes. With this change in the leadership of the bank in Spain, Aboukhair was appointed global head of cards and digital solutions for the group.

Rami Aboukhair was born in Granada in 1967. His father, of Syrian origin, moved to this Andalusian province to study Medicine. His mother is from Malaga. The director has lived in Homs, the second largest city in Syria, in Argentina, the United Kingdom and the United States, but also in Abarán, a town in Murcia with 13,000 inhabitants, a province in which he studied Economics. In addition, he has been trained in prestigious institutions such as Harvard, IESE or the London Business School.

Shortly after finishing his career, he signed for Repsol, a company with which he was in Barcelona and Madrid shortly before moving to Argentina, in 1999, to head the marketing area of ​​the energy company at YPF.