Zintra Capital

About us

Management team

Experienced partners.
Institutional rigour. Aligned interests.

Zintra Capital is led by senior professionals with a proven track record in international investment banking, corporate lending and private credit.

José Corral

Managing Partner and CEO

Corral has 30 years’ banking experience at Santander, where he led the SME and corporate banking divisions in Spain and served as Deputy Director of Risk and Group Credit Officer. He began his career in capital markets and structured finance at BBVA.

Lars Schmidt-Ott

Managing Partner

Schmidt-Ott has 30 years’ experience in international investment banking. He was Head of Global Banking at Swiss Re, Chairman of CEG AG and a board member of Invision AG, and previously held M&A roles at UBS Macquarie (FPK) and Boston Consulting Group.

Juan del Rivero

Board Member

Del Rivero has over 40 years’ experience in investment banking. A former partner of Goldman Sachs and former Chairman of Azora, he maintains long-standing relationships across the Spanish corporate, institutional and sovereign sectors.

Julio Manero

CFO and COO

Manero has over 30 years’ experience in financial management and corporate restructuring, including interim CFO, CEO and CRO mandates and board appointments. He spent 14 years as a Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal and a decade as Chief Financial Officer of Riofisa-Colonial.

Manuel Acevedo

Managing Director

Acevedo has more than 25 years’ banking experience at Santander, where he was Head of Risk for Continental Europe and Global Head of Client Credit for CIB, with oversight of a portfolio in excess of €200bn.

Elizabeth García

Managing Director

García spent more than 20 years as Finance and Legal Director of Deutsche Bank’s healthcare factoring business and as Operations Director for Spain and Portugal at Grifols.

Francisco Campos

Managing Director

Campos has more than 15 years’ experience in credit risk, structured finance and direct lending across banking and asset management. He built his career at ING and Banco Santander, holding senior roles in corporate risk and structured finance within Wholesale Banking.

Regina Arrinda

Director

Arrinda has more than 12 years’ international experience in structured and project finance at BBVA and HSBC, covering energy and infrastructure across multiple jurisdictions. She leads Zintra Capital’s Energy Investments team.

Gonzalo De la Rosa-Degrelle

Senior Vice President

De la Rosa-Degrelle has more than nine years’ experience in structured finance and capital markets. He previously worked in the Project & Acquisition Finance teams at Banco Santander and BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking. He began his career in Structured Finance at Fitch Ratings.