Loja Group

Katherine Harvey Burr

Katherine Burr has more than 30 years experience in global fund management in multiple asset classes in various currency and interest rate environments. Ms. Burr was Director (1989-present), EVP (1989-1991), President/CEO (1992-2002), and presently Chairman of Hanseatic Group, Inc., a top-performing SEC and CFTC-registered quantitative fund manager that uses pattern recognition to trade securities, futures, and currencies for global institutional investors. Ms. Burr directed strategy, operations, and marketing at the Hanseatic companies, raising over $600 million from institutional investors. Ms. Burr handled the 1992 acquisition of Hanseatic by Cragnotti and Partners, an Amsterdam-based billion dollar private equity firm. Ms. Burr also managed the internal spin-out of Hanseatic Management Services, Inc., a woman-owned institutional fund manager. Since mid-2005, she has served as Investment Advisor to the billion-dollar family office of one of the founding owners of Intrepid Potash, Inc., who is also family member of Ms. Burr’s. Ms. Burr has a B.A. in Modern Languages from Colorado State University (1970) and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico (1973), where she was a Ph.D. Candidate in Nonlinear Systems Theory and a National Science Foundation Fellow (1972-1974). Ms. Burr also holds an MBA from the University of New Mexico (1989), specializing in the trans-industrial use of Japanese management techniques.