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Management team
Three generations of hoteliers

María del Carmen Cheda de Álvarez Argüelles
President
Founder, together with Manuel Álvarez Argüelles, and president of Álvarez Argüelles Hoteles. Born in Galicia, Spain, she came to Argentina after the Spanish Civil War. She began to work with Manuel at different tourism establishments before they settled in Mar del Plata and started letting a small guest house there. That’s where AAH was born. She currently devotes most of her time to the Maternity and Children’s Hospital Foundation (FUNDAMI), of which she is president.

Claudia Álvarez Argüelles
Vice President and CEO
Born in Mar del Plata. She’s a public accountant (University of Mar del Plata) with post-graduate training in hotel catering, which she received at the Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland and the Centro Superior de Hostelería de Galicia. She has been director of MAPFRE Compañía de Seguros since 2019. She also holds honorary positions as Vice Consul of Spain in Mar del Plata, Delegate of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce of the Argentine Republic in Mar del Plata and Member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF). She has received, among others, the KONEX award, the SME entrepreneur merit diploma (2008–2018), and the Woman Entrepreneur of Buenos Aires 2019 award from the Economic Federation of the Province of Buenos Aires (FEBA).

Matías Basanta Álvarez
Executive Director
Born in Mar del Plata on 1 June 1985. He holds a degree in business administration (Universidad de San Andrés) and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, Spain. He has held various positions at Mercadolibre.com and Danone, and since June 2012 he has been executive director of the Álvarez Argüelles Hoteles hotel chain.
Alvarez Argüelles Hoteles Team

Héctor Arias
Operations and Development Director

Gonzalo Pereira
Marketing and Institutional Relations Manager

Federico Uberto
Project Manager

Andrea Maetow
Sales Manager

Humberto Falco
Human Resources Manager

Pablo Goñi
IT Manager

Natalia Salvini
Central Reservation Manager

Sergio Sarno
Technical Services Manager

Sergio Martin
Financial Manager

Vivian Peña
Administration Manager

Alex Krause
Revenue Manager