Meet the team

Board of Directors

Eileen Langan Barber, Secretary

Eileen is Co-founder, CEO, and has served on the board of Keynetics Inc. (dba ClickBank) from 1998 to present and Kount Inc from 2007 to 2015.  Kount Inc, formed in 2007, is a leading innovator for fraud and risk management. From December 2015 and until the acquisition by Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in February 2021, Kount was owned by CVC Capital Partners and Keynetics Inc.

Eileen is the current Chair of Trailhead, a non-profit that helps entrepreneurs succeed, and has served on its board since 2016. Eileen has been a member of Idaho Woman's Charitable Foundation since 2003. Eileen is also a member of The Higher Education Research Council (HERC). HERC is responsible for implementing and administering the Board’s higher education research policy and the grant programs created by it. Additionally, Eileen has served, for over 10 years, on the boards of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Boise State University Foundation.

Eileen is the owner of Ochos Cocktail & Wine Bar located in an 1894 renovated historic building in the heart of downtown Boise, Idaho. Ochos is best known for its multi-level back patio with fire bar and fire pit.  Upstairs at Ochos is home to Boise’s best social dancing — Argentine Tango, Swing, Salsa, Bachata, etc. — with hard maple sprung floor and comfy lounge seating. Find out more about Ochos at www.ochosboise.com

Eileen earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in 1991.

Eduard Koller, President

Eduard is a high tech executive with a passion for tango, who over the past two decades has beeninvolved in various roles in charitable and non-profit organizations.

Having a PhD in Mathematics and MSc in Computer Science, Eduard’s professional career began in academia then shifted to the tech industry, where he started off as a software engineer, then over the years moved into engineering management, product management, and leadership roles in companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and DocuSign.

An ardent supporter of giving back to communities, Eduard has been involved with charitable and non-profit organizations in the fields of education, culture, arts and social services – from driving fundraisers to supporting gifted students from lower income communities, to co-founding and leading an organization promoting the continuity of cultural roots and traditions of Romanian-Americans in the US, to volunteering as an industry mentor for Ada Developers Academy, an intensive software developer training school for women.

Eduard discovered tango fairly recently, and his newly found passion for tango and love for tango communities drove him to travel extensively for tango lessons, workshops, marathons and festivals across countries in North America, Europe, and Argentina. In the past years Eduard has supported, as a private individual, various tango non-profit organizations and individual artists. He is looking forward to expand his support to tango artists and communities with the help of Tango without Borders.

Oliver Kolker, Vice President

Oliver Kolker, Actor, Writer, Director, Producer and Tango Dancer, who since the age of three, grew up in Argentina, is actually a native born New Yorker. Oliver began dancing Tango in 1997. Like everyone else Oliver became obsessed with the dance and begun his lessons at La Viruta, and was lucky enough to learn with Horacio Godoy, Luis Solanas, Osvaldo Zotto, Roberto Herrera, Graciela Gonzalez, Carlos Copello, Carlitos Perez, El Flaco Danny y Omar Vega.

After graduating in Business Administration at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Oliver started producing Instructional Tango Videos of Mora Godoy who later hired him as the Executive Director of her School. Mora and Oliver also started "TANGO EMOCION", a great Tango Company, with six Tango Couples, plus Lisandro Adrover. Together they produced Recoleta Tango, a very elegant Tango House located in Recoleta in the Prestigeous "Alvear Palace Hotel".

In 2002, Oliver entered the World Tango Championship Salon Category with his partner at that time, Andrea Gomez Corbalan, and won sixth place out of 400 couples. Oliver entered the World Tango Championship Stage Category in 2004, with his then Dance partner, Veronica Plalacios, winning a spot in the finals.

Tipica Films, who produced a famous Tango Film "ABRAZOS" hired Oliver to Write and Co-Direct another Instructional Tango Video with the World Tango Champions in 2003 (sold worldwide in five languages).

In 2005, Oliver arrived to New York with his partner, Luna Palacios, and they took the country by storm. In 2007 Oliver started performing and teaching with his new partner, Silvina Valz. They toured all over the world teaching and performing at different Festivals, such as: Portland Tango Festival, Tango Fantasy Miami, Tango Element, Baltimore, Chicago Tango Week, Chicago Mini Tango Festival, Tango Magic Seattle WA, Planetango Moscow Russia, Ann Arbor Tango Festival, Crimean Tango Festival and more.

Today Oliver is Dancing, Teaching, and Producing movies with his business partner, Hernan Findling. Together they founded Funciona y Kuenta Producciones. Oliver's first movie project was the acclaimed movie “FERMIN, Glories of Tango” that was presented in more than 20 Festivals all Over the World. Since then Oliver has produced seven more movies. His 8th movie is another tango feature film “I Had The Heart” to be released in 2024.

Oliver’s primary goal is to teach people how to dance tango in the same way that he was taught, with Passion, Knowledge, Care and more than anything with TRUTH.