Jonatan Altszul
Managing Partner

Jonatan Altszul is co-founder and Managing Director of Aconcagua Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in hi-tech companies in the Latin American region to develop them into high growth global companies. He is also co-founder of Core Security Technologies and the Chairman of its Board of Directors. Core Security Technologies develops strategic security solutions for Fortune 1000 corporations, government agencies and military organizations. The company, founded in Buenos Aires and now headquartered in Boston , created the first-to-market automated penetration testing product for assessing specific information security threats to an organization.


Prior to founding Core, Mr. Altszul was a member of the Special Projects Group at the Argentine tax agency. This elite group evaluated and developed critical hardware and software security products for the agency in projects with budgets of up to $500MM. Before that, in 1989 he founded and, until 1992, served as the CEO of Datyl Systems, a company that developed the first commercial Geographical Information Systems software in Latin America . Also, in 1999, he co-founded Movilogic, a mobile solutions company based in Buenos Aires.


In 2000, while leading CORE as its CEO, Endeavor Global, Inc., a non-profit supporter of entrepreneurship in emerging markets, selected Mr. Altszul as a top entrepreneur of the year. Jonatan Altszul actively supports the development of the High Tech Sector in Argentina and is the proud father of Olivia and Tadeo

Emiliano Kargieman
Managing Partner

Emiliano Kargieman is a co-founder and managing director of Aconcagua Ventures, a venture capital fund based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that invests in hi-tech companies in Latin America to develop them as global, high-growth businesses.


Prior to co-founding Aconcagua, Emiliano co-founded Core Security Technologies, an information security software company based in Buenos Aires and Boston, where he occupied a variety of operational roles since its inception.


Emiliano has an extensive background in management and technology, writes contributions for several publications and is a regular speaker at industry events. Prior to co-founding Core, he served as a member of the Special Projects Group for the World Bank. Emiliano has also independently consulted and developed software products for several corporations and government agencies.


Emiliano is a member of the committee in charge of evaluating R&D investment results for the Argentinian Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica (SeCyT), member of the board of advisors of the RAICES project at SeCyT, member of the management committee of Encuentro de Cooperación de la Diáspora para el desarrollo de Argentina (ECODAR), founding member of the Board of Directors of LatIPNet.


Emiliano studied mathematics and philosophy at Universidad de Buenos Aires

Carlos Adamo
Partner

Mr. Carlos Alberto Adamo is Partner of P.C.P. Inversiones S.A. (private equity investments), Managing Director of M.B.A. Banco de Inversiones S.A. (investment bank), Avex S.A.(poultry industry), Servicios de Viajes y Turismo Biblos S.A. (tourist agency), Twenty Gallon Water System Corp. – Luxembourg – (mineralized bottled water distribution) and Empresas del Sur GmbH (Austria).

He is Chairman of ACEESA, Vice Chairman of FUNDALEU and a member of the Board of Governors of CIPPEC (all three non-profit organizations).


He was the CEO of Banco del Sud since 1991 and, afterwards, its President until December 31, 1995. At that time he retired from the executive position.


During this time he was also a Board Member of A.F.J.P. Previnter S.A. (pension fund administrator), Cía. Internacional Vida S.A. (insurance company) and HellerSud S.A. (factoring company).


In August 1971 he joined BankBoston – Argentina where he held several positions until 1982 when he was appointed CEO. He served in this position until he left the Bank in 1991.


Mr. Adamo holds a Master in Business Administration and in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires.


He is a Harvard Business School Graduate, Boston, USA
(OPM Program –25 th Promotion).
Carlos Adamo is married, has three children and lives in Buenos Aires

Gustavo Herrero
Partner

Gustavo Herrero obtained his MBA at the Harvard Business School as a Fulbright Scholar in 1976. He moved back to Argentina in 1978, where he had an extensive business career, occupying senior positions in leading firms in the textile and packaging fields. In 1999, he became the Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Latin America Research Center, based in Buenos Aires. As head of the HBS LARC, Gustavo works closely with HBS faculty who do research throughout Latin America, developing both intellectual and social capital for the School. He is the author of 16 HBS teaching cases, and contributed to the writing of yet over 20 further HBS cases and notes. He has written several articles for academic publications, and was a co-Editor of the book titled Business Solutions for the Global Poor, Creating Social and Economic Value , published by Jossey-Bass in December 2006.


Gustavo is an active private investor, and belongs to the Board of Directors of various Argentine companies. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, in Boston, and a Vice President of the Argentine Tennis Association. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of LASPAU, a Harvard affiliate involved in student and faculty exchanges in Latin America, back in Cambridge. He is also a member of the Board and of the Executive Committee of ACCION International, New York-based largest microfinance organization in the Americas. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of the University of Sao Paulo's Centro de Estudos em Administração do Terceiro Setor (CEATS), in Brazil, of Universidad de San Andrés, in Argentina, and of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), in Venezuela. He is also a member of the Consultative Boards of the Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC), in Argentina, and of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies' Regional Office in Santiago, Chile. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers (Comissão Externa de Avaliação) of Ibmec-Sao Paulo, a leading Brazilian business school.

Pablo Gonzalez Isla
Partner

Pablo Gonzalez Isla worked for almost 20 years for Citibank-Citicorp in different top management positions in Europe, Latin America and the United States. His last assignment for the bank in the U.S was as Chairman and CEO of Citicorp Information Resources, a major computer services business for financial institutions in the 1980's.


During the almost 18 years he has been back in his native Argentina, Gonzalez Isla served as the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of both a major local commercial bank and, subsequently, at the second largest oil company in the country.


At the same time, and since the early 1990's, Gonzalez Isla has also been an active member of the Board of Directors of BGH, a leading competitor in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of consumer and wireless communication products and services in South America. Representing BGH, he was during five years an active member of the Executive Committee of CPM, a leading Information Technology company in Brazil.


Trained as an engineer, with specialization in Strategy at MIT, he has also consulted with some of the most important firms primarily in Argentina, but also in Brazil and Mexico.

Gabriel Rozman
Partner

Present Role
Tata Consultancy Services
President, TCS Iberoamerica


Since 2002, responsible for subsidiaries and operations in Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Israel. First and largest Indian IT Consulting and Outsourcing firm in the Region with over 5,000 headcount with 98% of staff from local countries.


For the previous 30 years US Partner with Ernst & Young Global. During this time span, in charge of Management Consulting for several countries such as Japan, Korea, Italy, Spain and several in Latin America. Regional Head for Latin America; software sales director for Europe and later worldwide; Director of IT Consulting Global and Director of Management Consulting Global.


Shorter assignments as CEO of Softtek International, a Mexican software firm; one year with McKinsey in New York; same with an investment bank in New York. Previously, programmer and systems analyst with an IT equipment manufacturer.


BS in Economics, from California State University and MBA from UCLA.


Member of the Board of ACCION International in Washington D.C. and Advisory Board Member and President of Uruguay chapter of Endeavor (both NGOs).


Member of the Board of CTT Venezuela and Board Member of several Tata Consultancy Services subsidiaries and Business Units