Year of first appointment and year in which current mandate will expire: 2017-2025

Biography
William Connelly is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington D.C. From 1980 to 1990, he was a banker at Chase Manhattan Bank in the US, Spain and the United Kingdom. From 1990 to 1999, he worked at Barings and later at ING Barings as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions in Spain, following which he was appointed Head of Corporate Finance for Western Europe. From 1999 to 2016, he was responsible for various positions in the Investment Banking Division at ING Bank N.V. (Netherlands). His last positions were Global Head of Corporate and Investment Banking and member of the Executive Committee, as well as Chief Executive Officer of ING Real Estate B.V. (an ING Bank subsidiary).

Other offices held currently in foreign listed companies
Chairman of the Board of Directors: Aegon Ltd (Bermuda) (Member since 2017 and Chairman since 2018).
Director: Amadeus IT Group (Spain) (since 2019) and Chairman (since 2021).

Other offices and positions held in other companies in the past five years
Director: Singular Bank SA (formerly Self Trade Bank SA - Spain (from 2019 to April 2023).