Tara C. Kenney ’82
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Tara Kenney ’82 is a senior finance executive with extensive experience as a banker and investor in the Emerging Markets. Kenney formed TCK Global Advisors in September 2020 to bring sustainable investment solutions to the institutional marketplace. She has served for many decades on non-profit boards furthering the mission of economic empowerment, financial inclusion, education, and health care for the underserved, in the US and Globally.
Prior to TCK Global Advisors, Tara led the Faith-Based practice for Boston Common Asset Management, a leader in ESG/Impact Investing, as a Senior Vice President. In this role she managed consultant relationships and new business development, leading to significant new wins during her tenure. 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. In her 30 + year career, Tara was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Scudder Investments Latin American Equity Product, as well as working for Bankers Trust’s Latin American Merchant Bank, where she led the Brady Plan debt negotiations, and work for the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
She received a BA in Government and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and did postgraduate work in Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She earned an MBA in Finance at New
York University’s Stern School of Business.
“We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.”
Pope Francis
Learn more about Tara Kenney’s work and partners here:
- Highlighting Tara Kenney in an article by Megan Peterson, Accion: Women leaders are crucial for enabling sustainable development, part one
- Article by Michael Schlein, President and CEO at Accion, on the impact of COVID-19 on the underserved, Accion’s mission and the role of inclusive finance: Your support can help continue building a financially inclusive world
- Stories of hope and resilience from TCK Global Advisors partners’ clients:
- Article by Robert Abare, Accion: How South Africa’s women entrepreneurs are leading responses to COVID-19
- Article by Jose Wolff, Accion: “The fight to keep going”: A family business changes course
Other related talks:
- Opening remarks from Sir Ronald Cohen at The Future of Impact Investing at the Harvard Business School: The Future of Impact Investing Keynote Address with Sir Ronald Cohen
- In this TED talk, Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen, shares stories of how “patient capital” can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity — to the world’s poorest: Patient Capital