Tactegra Leadership
Ian Cato, Founder & Managing Partner
A US Marine and Master Black Belt with a formal education in Finance. This managing partner is a former corporate executive with a long successful history of delivering business results for his former trend-setting powerhouse employers such as Bank of America, GE Medical Systems, Johnson Controls, Kraft Foods, and Wellpoint.
Whether leading a team of Marines, or the Quality Executive attached to a $35B acquisition, or the problem-solver focused on identifying the black hole where claims valued at millions of dollars were hiding, Ian is always focused on achieving the objective and delivering results.
Today Ian leverages his experiences to lead Tactegra in achieving its goals while ensuring his partners and clients are left better than they were before Tactegra. Ian has co-authored two books and served on the Systems Engineering Advisory Board at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Ian holds a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Marquette University.
Ismael (Izzy) Sanchez, Founder & Partner
An engineer with over 4 decades of global transformation experience, Izzy has led measurable modernization efforts across federal, commercial, and international organizations. Beginning as an engineer with the South Florida Water Management District, he later joined Xerox, where he became the company’s first Master Black Belt, authored seven patents, and led Lean transformations across the U.S., Mexico, Japan, and Europe.
Izzy has delivered more than $800 million in validated financial benefits throughout his career. As a Senior Vice President at Bank of America, he led enterprise-wide technology and operational modernization initiatives, producing $306 million in verified savings in a single fiscal year while doubling mortgage division throughput.
As Co-Founder and Partner of Tactegra, Izzy co-architected the firm’s proprietary Process Modernization & Design framework, helping organizations embed governance, analytics, and execution discipline into repeatable systems. He is the author of four books, serves as Chair of the Mecklenburg County Waste Management Advisory Board, and holds dual B.S. degrees from Cornell University and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester.
