PROMETHOS CAPITAL - Key Persons
Ash joins Promethos having previously worked as a Senior Impact analyst at Athena Capital Advisors. There he led the firm's landscape review on climate change and identified investable themes among private market strategies. He has also worked with rural electricity user groups in Nepal and worked in development consulting with SiddharthInc.
Ash is a graduate of Grinnell College with a BA in Economics and Mathematics. He is also a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University with a Master of International Business. His thesis at Fletcher was on Sustainable Equity Funds and the Relationship of Quality Factor to Fund Performance.
Ivka Kalus - CEO, Chief Investment Officer, Founder
Job Titles:
- Chief Investment Officer
- Founder
- Managing Partner
Ivka is an accomplished investor with 24 years experience managing global and international equity portfolios for retail and institutional clients. She has experience launching new investment strategies, both active and indexed, and has significant expertise in sustainable investing (ESG and SRI) and gender-lens investing. Before co-founding Promethos, Ivka was lead portfolio manager of International Strategies at Boston Advisors. Prior to joining Boston Advisors in 2015, Ivka was a senior portfolio manager at Pax World Management, where she managed the Pax World International Fund and the Pax World Global Women's Equality Fund. Before Pax World, she managed international and global portfolios at State Street Global Advisors and Baring Asset Management, and was a global equity analyst at Independence Investments and at Putnam Investments. Early in her career, Ivka worked as a management consultant to large corporations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, including three years in Prague working on projects to privatize state-owned Czech companies.
Ivka's global investment expertise is enhanced by her experience living and working around the world and her ability to communicate effectively in English, French, German, Spanish and Czech. She earned a B.A. degree in biology from Harvard University, a Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an M.B.A from INSEAD. Ivka currently serves on the boards of the Boston Economics Club, United Planet, and American Boronite Corporation.
Job Titles:
- Director of Research and Product Strategy, Managing Partner
Joe has 30 years of experience in the asset management industry with a focus on international markets. His recent role was as Executive Director at JP Morgan leading the international desk in Boston for seven years. Previously, he was an Associate Portfolio Manager at CI investment's Cambridge Advisors. There, he played a key role in all international investments for Cambridge with a focus on the Cambridge Global Fund with Alan Radlo. Joe ran a sleeve of the Global fund and was sole PM on an EAFE separate account. Before Cambridge, Joe spent nine years covering Europe and international markets for Merrill Lynch as lead of their International desk. Joe spent four years at Midland Walwyn covering Canadian markets and three years at Scudder Funds in their investment group.
Joe earned a B.A. degree in Economics from Bates College and a Master's degree in Finance from Bentley University, McCallum School of Business.
Jonathan joins Promethos with an array of industry experience in Europe. He previously worked in Luxembourg as a Client Service Operations specialist at State Street Bank and as a Financial Auditor at Mazars. Prior to that he had done internships at Brown Brothers Harriman in Luxembourg and at Banque de France in the south of France.
He earned both a Bachelor in International Business and a Master in International Finance from the Toulouse Business School in France. Jonathan speaks three languages, French, Spanish and English, and completed one year of study abroad at the University of Valencia in Spain as an undergraduate. He also has a Master of Science in Finance degree from Brandeis University.