Highly experienced team

Allen holds more than 35 years’ experience in investment banking across the globe, mainly in Goldman Sachs (GS), where he was Head of the México Team, COO for the Latin American Group, Head of Emerging Markets for the Investment Banking Division, Head of Russia and CIS, Head of European Industrials Group and Head of the Spanish team. Allen finished his career in GS as member of the Firmwide Commitments Committee, where he was responsible for authorizing all equity underwritings carried out by the firm and monitoring commercial and reputational risks. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Millicom International Cellular S.A. (a telecom company focused on emerging markets).

In addition, he was a member of the Board of Directors at AB Investment Kinnevik (a Sweden-based company), President of the Board of Directors, and member of the Executive Committee of RLH.

Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of RLD and a member of the Investment Committee of Balam Fund I. Moreover, he is Chairman Emeritus of the Council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Member of the Campaign Board of the Historic Royal Palaces in the United Kingdom, and Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Allen graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He also obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University. Allen has double nationality, Mexican, and English. He speaks English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Russian.

María has over 10 years of experience, especially in the financial sector at Deloitte. Maria´s experience in Deloitte was fundamentally in audit and process consulting areas, where she analyzed and developed solutions to improve processes and optimize the resource allocation of companies such as Grupo Cepsa and Gas Natural. Moreover, she was part the team that designed and implemented Business intelligence tools for several companies of the Touristic sector.

Before joining BK partners María founded her own business working in the organization of events at a family owned property. She was responsible of the market analysis, business plan creation, financing and in later stage, of the design and construction of the event venue, leading the construction and vendor controlling. Currently, the company organizes more than 30 events per year.

Maria joined BK Partners in November 2018 and is responsible for the financial controlling of several assets of the Group. Additionally, she manages certain real estate assets of the Group.

Maria has a Degree in Business Administration granted by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid having studied one year in the Wirschaftsuniversität Wien and she speaks Spanish, English and German.