Mr. Guillem has over 25 years of experience in international commercial lending. In his capacity as Chief Executive Officer he is responsible for overseeing Acorn’s strategic direction, reviewing all investment portfolios, monitoring performance, marketing efforts and human resources requirements.

Mr. Guillem founded Latitude20 Capital Partners LLC in 2014 where he was the Chief Investment Officer. Lat20 is a specialty finance company focused on financing small and medium size exporters based in Emerging Markets. While at Lat20 Mr. Guillem oversaw the origination, structuring, funding, and ongoing monitoring of credit facilities for small and medium size companies based in Latin America.

Prior to forming Lat20, Mr. Guillem was the head of the credit and underwriting department of the IIG Trade Finance LLC. He was responsible for performing risk analysis and formulating risk-mitigating financing structures and for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the asset manager’s credit, monitoring and reporting policies and procedures.

Mr. Guillem’s extensive experience in the trade finance industry, credit analysis, legal documentation and team management coupled with his deep understanding of emerging markets and commodities, as well as credit enhancements such as trusts, collateral management, and credit insurance. During his career, Mr. Guillem has been part of in excess of us$4.9 billion of trade finance transactions.

Prior to working at the IIG Trade Finance LLC, Mr. Guillem was a relationship manager for Banque Hervet (HSBC group) where he was providing financing solutions to companies based in France

Mr. Guillem holds a Master in Financial Engineering from the Côte d'Azur University (France) and is fluent in English, Spanish and French.