Who We Are

Board of Directors

Cindy Mason

Cindy has extensive experience as a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She arrived in the U.S. from South Africa at age 25. While in Los Angeles she choreographed music videos, started her own school, The Mason Arts Institute, and taught at Inland Pacific Ballet. After touring internationally with Pars National Ballet she moved to Telluride, Colorado to begin a second career in real estate. Currently an Austin resident, she continues her lifelong passion for dancing, now on a non-professional basis, and is a dedicated Argentine Tango dancer.

David Boucher

David has been an entrepreneur and investor in the high-tech area for many years. He was founder and CEO for 12 years of a publicly-held computer software firm with offices around the world, served as a General Partner in a venture capital investment firm for 15 years, and has served on the board of directors of a variety of public and privately-held companies. He has been an avid Argentine Tango dancer for about 5 years.

Vance Rightmire

Vance has formed and run a few small businesses as partnerships and sole proprietorships over the last 30 + years. He organized and ran the Austin Spring Tango Festival in Austin Texas for the last 9 years, with the help of many willing and able volunteers! He started dancing and studying Argentine Tango in the late 90's, and is dedicated to encouraging and supporting the growth of that dance form in the Austin area.

Officers

Executive Project Manager

Monza Lui conspired with Vance Rightmire to initiate the formation of the Austin Tango Society. She moved from Hong Kong to the United States in 1997 to pursue a different kind of life. Monza has a Bachelor degree in Psychology, a Master degree in Computer Science, gathered trophies from ballroom dance competitions and bridge tournaments, owned tons of books, cooks everyday, and is a certified Project Manager. She has been social dancing for nine years in which the last five was exclusively Argentine Tango. She believes what she feels about tango is true love and not infatuation. Monza teaches workshops and seminars occasionally.

Chief Web and Design Officer

Michael Arbore is a freelance web designer and developer, formerly with the University of Texas. In his words, “I like to build websites that help people do things they need to do.” He’s been dancing tango for over five years and has also dabbled in salsa, swing and lindy hop. You can find more about him on his website michaelarbore.com.

Chief Technology Officer

David Philips was a founder and officer of Balcones Computer Corporation, one of the early research and development firms for personal computer hardware and software. Later, he became a founder and officer for Netserv, an early local area networking service company. Now that he's retired he says his job is Argentine tango dancer. He started with American style ballroom and swing dancing thirty years ago, and over that time has danced some of anything and everything. But after discovering Argentine tango two years ago he finds it the most challenging, and it has become his passion.