Founders
Katherine V (CEO/Founder)
Katherine is a former Wall Street institutional investor where she personally managedU$S3 billion dollars of pension fund assets for three of the leading global investment manager firms, giving strategy advice to CEOs and CFOs as one of their largest shareholders. Since 2014, she pioneered the issue of economic inequality, and since 2019, the loss of US democracy, as key investment themes for the largest institutional investors and asset owners in the world, including on behalf of the State Treasurers, Controllers and Comptrollers of the biggest state pension funds in the US. She specialized in bringing together multiple VIP stakeholders to collaborate in pioneering projects on economic inequality and the loss of US democracy, including premier global management consulting firm McKinsey, the CFA Institute and UN PRI, as well as Nobel laureate and other leading economists in the US (including a former US Treasury Secretary) and leading British economists Martin Wolf CBE, Colin Mayer CBE and John Kay CBE. Wall Street legends have also supported her work, such as the late Vanguard founder, John C Bogle, and the late ‘godfather of corporate governance’ Robert A G Monks. She has had a number of op-eds and letters published in the Financial Times. A CFA Institute Charterholder, she also has an MBA from IESE – one of the top-ranked business schools in the world. In her spare time, Katherine has also sung with some of the leading choirs in the world, including the resident choruses at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in DC as well as the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Bach Choir in London. She was also a board member of one of the biggest ballet companies in the US, and an economic advisor to a government minister in Australia. A keen amateur tango dancer, she is now focused on bringing the power of tango as a mental wellness tool to as many people as possible.
Gonzalo Ortiz Masllorens (Strategy consultant)
Gonzalo is a private equity executive, whose international career also spans investment banking, as well as top-tier firms such as Citi, EY (Ernst & Young) and PIF (Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund) across Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. A citizen of Argentina, he is also an alumn of IESE, one of the top ranked business schools in the world.
Advisory Board
Michelle Buckley
Michelle is an investment professional based in New York and Boston, with over twenty years of experience as an equity analyst, portfolio manager, and chief investment officer. A graduate of Princeton University, she is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. She has also been a mental health advocate.
Anna Cohen
Anna is the Managing Partner and President at Cohen Aliados Financieros, a corporate finance and personal wealth management firm in Buenos Aires. She is also a Board Member for both IDEA ARG and CIPPEC.
Agustín Ibanez
Agustin Ibanez is an Argentinean neuroscientist, a full professor and Director of the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile). He is also a Team Leader of the Predictive Brain Health Modelling Group at Trinity College Dublin, and Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, founded by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Trinity College Dublin (Trinity).
Pablo Veron
There is surely no more accomplished and effective an ambassador of Argentine social tango to the rest of the world than Pablo Veron. Described as “the world’s best dancer” by Paris daily Liberation, with “the feet of God” (according to the New York Times), he is widely recognized as the key figure in the modernization and renewed popularity of Argentine tango. As a choreographer and performer, he has participated in countless tango shows around the world, including the legendary, award-winning Tango Argentino, and has danced for President Clinton in the White House. He has also shared the big screen with Hollywood start including Kirsten Dunst, Robert Duvall and Johnny Depp, in films including The Tango Lesson, The Man Who Cried, Assassination Tango, and Upside Down. His work as a choreographer and performer has earned him many accolades, including the American Choreography Award, a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, and a prize from the Argentine Society of Authors and Composers for sharing Argentine culture abroad.
Clinical advisors
Guillermo Hönig (psychiatrist)
Guillermo is a psychiatrist (trained at the University of Buenos Aires), Master in Psycho–neuro–pharmacology (U.F.), Doctor of the University of Buenos Aires. Chief of Psychiatric Service at the Hospital J T Borda, the leading mental hospital in Argentina. He has led the tango program at the hospital for many years.
Daniela Klein (psychologist)
Daniela is a licensed psychologist based in Austria. Having long seen the benefits of tango for mental health, she is also a committed tango dancer who has visited Buenos Aires many times.
Michael Madsen (psychiatrist)
Michael is a psychiatrist based in Denmark, who holds a Master of Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as an MSc in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics and Political Science. He focuses on improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery and creating innovative solutions for the health sector. He is also a dedicated tango dancer.
Jamila Williams (psychologist)
Jamila is a licensed psychologist originally from the US, she has been living in Buenos Aires for the past 10 years and is a passionate tango dancer.