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Jimmy is a Guatemalan and Swiss national with an international hospitality background having lived over 15 years in Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom. He holds a BSc in International Hospitality Management from the École hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland. Jimmy has over 10 years of experience in the hotel industry with a focus on hotel real estate. Prior to joining Rooms2night, he was part of Internos Global Investors’ initial hospitality team based in London launching the company’s first hotel real estate fund, reaching a total AUM of € 500 Million with hotels across Europe. In this role he was involved in deal sourcing and underwriting of hotel acquisitions, financing, asset disposals, asset management and various strategic advisory mandates. Prior to this, he served at various global hotel brokerage and investment advisory firm where he was involved in the sale of single and portfolio hotel transactions and provided hotel investment, valuation, development and consultancy services. Overall throughout his career, Jimmy has been involved in over € 1 billion worth of international hotel assignments including transactions, valuations and numerable advisory mandates. Jimmy is fluent English, Spanish and German and has an intermediate level of Portuguese and French. He held the role of President of the Great Britain Alumni Chapter of the École hôtelière de Lausanne for four years prior his move back to Latin America and is a current Trustee of Lichutam, a non-profit organisation devoted to work in education and project facilitation in Guatemala.