A group of senior bankers from Santander Private Banking International has joined Wells Fargo in Miami. The team includes Gustavo Mariosa, Gastón Ricardes, Gabriel Patrich, Laureano Bello and Advisor Sebastián Ramírez. Sofía Fernández Morell and Nelson Rodríguez will also join Wells Fargo as Client Associate.
With this move, Mariosa concludes an employment association with Santander which has lasted almost 30 years. He began in 1991 as a representative in the Sao Paulo branch in Brazil, where he spent more than five years, and then held the same position in Mexico, where he worked for seven years. Later he held the same position in Peru for six years. In 2009 he was appointed Senior Vice President at Santander Private Banking International, a position he´s held until now.
Meanwhile, Ricardes and Bello both share a vast experience in private banking, starting with the Bank of Boston in Miami in 1993 and 1992, respectively, until they both joined Santander in 2007. In the Spanish company, they both held the position of Senior Vice President.
Patrich joined Santander in 2007 as an executive banker and senior vice president. He holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sebastián Ramírez, who has a CFA certification, worked at Santander as an investment advisor from September 2013 until this month, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“I am pleased to announce that as of September 18th, 2020, I joined Wells Fargo Advisors as Managing Director and Financial Advisor in their Miami, Florida office,” says Ramirez’s description. Prior to his work at Santander, Ramírez was an institutional sales and portfolio manager in several management companies in Buenos Aires and Miami.
The team will report to Martha Chinea, Senior Vice President, who reports to the International Market led by Mauricio Sanchez, Managing Director.