Tara Kenney is a senior finance executive with extensive experience as a banker and investor in the Emerging Markets. Areas of expertise include Emerging Markets Equities, ESG/Sustainable Investing and Latin American Debt Restructuring.
Kenney is bilingual, having lived in Latin America and worked with Latin American companies and government entities for nearly 4 decades. During her career, Tara has also served on non-profit boards furthering the mission of economic empowerment, financial inclusion, education and health care for the underserved, in the US and in Latin America. Kenney formed TCK Global Advisors in September, 2020 to bring sustainable investment solutions to the institutional marketplace.
She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, teaching “Sustainable Accounting, Reporting and Impact Investing.
“ She is also acting as an advisor to Impact Capital Funds, for the launch of a Social Impact Vehicle.
Prior to this consultancy, Tara was a Senior Vice President for Boston Common Asset Management, a leader in ESG/Impact Investing. Earlier, Kenney was a Managing Director with Deutsche Asset Management, where she directed the Institutional business for Latin America, and served as a Portfolio Manager and Head of Emerging Markets and Latin American Equities for nearly 2 decades.
In her 30 + year career, Tara was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Scudder Investments, as well as working for Bankers Trust’s Latin American Merchant Bank, where she led the Brady Plan debt negotiations for the bank. Her early career included work for the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the InterAmerican Development Bank.
Tara has extensive Corporate Governance experience having served on boards of numerous non-profits and academic institutions for the past 20 years.
She is one of the longest serving board members of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and is deeply committed to building the Impact Investing ecosystem at her alma mater.
Kenney currently co-heads the Finance and Investment Committee and has served as Treasurer for Accion International, a leader in Financial Inclusion for the Emerging Markets, as well as Catholic Charities USA, where she also serves on the Investment Committee.
Tara was a founding board member for EcoEnterprises Fund in 2000, investing in eco-friendly small businesses in Latin America.
Tara’s dedication to improving lives in Latin America also extends to her work with Educando and Andean Health and Development, two NGOs working in the areas of STEM education and health care delivery to the underserved.
She received a BA in Government and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and later studied Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She earned an MBA in Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business.