Our Team
The Promethos team believes in creating a collaborative environment that values diversity of ideas. Our team and investment process strive to limit bias and group think and encourage constant learning to evolve with the changing environment we live in. We set out to build a company that reflects our core values and the values of our clients, especially Respect, Diversity, Intellectual Curiosity & Rigor, Objectivity and Humility.
Ivka is an accomplished investor with 28 years’ experience managing global and international equity portfolios for retail and institutional clients. 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'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.
1Citywire, USA, 20 Top Female Portfolio Managers in the U.S. August 31, 2018. Citywire chose women who had top-quartile absolute
returns in their discipline and the highest levels of risk-adjusted returns over the past three years.
Morningstar Ratings TM The Morningstar absolute and percentile ranks are based on average annual total return relative to all funds in the same Morningstar category, which includes both mutual funds and ETFs, and do not include the effect of sales charges. Absolute ranks are assigned in descending order for each fund in the category, with 1 being the top performing fund. Funds with the same performance figure are assigned the same absolute rank. The Morningstar 5 Star Rating is for the 3-year period ended December 31, 2018 in the International Fund
Category which consists of 644 mutual funds.
U.S. Lipper Fund Awards are granted annually to the fund in each Lipper classification that achieves the highest score for Consistent Return,
a measure of its historical risk-adjusted returns, relative to peers, and honor funds that have excelled in providing consistently strong riskadjusted performance relative to their peers.All investing involves risk and international investing has its owns set of unique risks. These are more described in more detail in Promethos
Capital's Form ADV Part 2A which may be obtained by calling Promethos Capital at 617 784 9250 and is available on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s) website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Joe has over 30 years of experience in the asset management industry with a focus on international markets. Before co-founding Promethos, he 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 led all international investments for Cambridge with a focus on the Cambridge Global Fund. Joe ran a sleeve of the Global fund and was sole PM on an EAFE separate accounts. 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’s McCallum School of Business.
Jonathan joins Promethos with an array of industry experience in Europe. He previously worked in Luxembourg as a Client Service manager at State Street Bank and as a Consultant 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.
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.
Ollie joined the Promethos team in early 2025 after completing a medical internship at UNC Chapel Hill. Ollie earned a BA degree in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford, graduating with highest honors and winning the award for best Human Science dissertation in their year. Ollie then went on to earn an MD from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. Ollie has worked in the biotech industry, medical research, and public health, and has co-authored peer-reviewed publications on a variety of medical and public health topics at the intersection of healthcare quality improvement, ethics, and sustainability. Over the course of their academic and professional career, Ollie has co-led multiple student and alumni organizations striving to advance health and disability justice.
Wilfredo is a CPA with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry managing fund operations, financial reporting, audits, tax, and regulatory-risk compliance, including investor relations and financial due diligence.
Prior to founding DSF Advisors, Wilfredo worked at AshmoreAVENIDA (AA), formerly Avenida Capital, for eight years, where he last served as CFO/COO. AA is real estate fund manager managing over $300 million in investments in Latin America. Wilfredo was mainly responsible for financial reporting, tax and regulatory compliance, valuation, managing external vendors including auditors, fund operations, investor relations, deal structuring, fund formation and international tax planning. Additionally, Wilfredo helped lead the M&A transaction and led the full integration process with the Ashmore Group, a London based public investment manager who acquired a majority stake in Avenida Capital.
Previously, Wilfredo was an Audit Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for eight years. Wilfredo provided assurance and advisory services to top private equity & hedge funds, fund managers and other industries including foundations.
Prior to PwC, Wilfredo held accounting positions at IBM and Moody’s Investors Service.
Wilfredo earned a BBA degree in accounting from Baruch College.
Mr. Nicholas Dumenil is an Associate Director at Vigilant serving as Chief Compliance Officer and consultant for Registered Investment Advisers, involved with the development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of tailored compliance programs. In this capacity, he works closely with investment advisers and their management teams on compliance matters relevant to their investment management activities, including firms focused on institutional and high-net-worth clients, global and international equity strategies, and values-based and sustainability-focused investment approaches. Mr. Dumenil’s responsibilities encompass a broad range of Regulatory and Operational Compliance Functions applicable to investment advisers and their investment management activities. His experience includes Compliance Testing, Risk Assessments, and Internal Control Reviews, as well as the development and testing of Policies and Procedures addressing Valuation Methodologies, Investment Allocation Practices, Conflicts of Interest Management, Due Diligence, Portfolio Management Activities, and other areas relevant to an investment adviser’s business and investment process. As Chief Compliance Officer, Mr. Dumenil also oversees Regulatory Filings, including Form ADV, Form PF, Form CRS, and State Registrations, and has experience working on both SEC and State Regulatory Examinations. He also oversees the review of Marketing and Investor-Facing Materials to help ensure that communications are consistent with SEC Regulations, applicable Disclosure Requirements, and the adviser’s investment strategies and stated practices. His experience includes compliance considerations relating to ESG and sustainability-focused investment approaches and related disclosures. Mr. Dumenil received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and earned his Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University College of Law, where he was a member of the Intellectual Property and Business Law Societies and focused his academic work on Contractual Law.