Ignacio Aicardi

Chief Investment Officer
Darby International Capital

Ignacio Aicardi

Biography

Ignacio Aicardi is the CIO and Founder of Darby International Capital. He has 25 years of experience managing credit investment strategies in emerging markets. He serves as a member of the Investment Committee.

Mr. Aicardi was a Managing Director at Darby Overseas Investments, the emerging markets private equity subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, where he led investments in the private debt space in Latin America. Mr. Aicardi was responsible for all investments in Latin America (ex-Brazil) for the Latin American Private Debt strategy, participated in fundraising, launch and deployment. In his role, Mr. Aicardi managed all aspects of the credit investment process and oversaw the team of investment professionals in Colombia and Washington DC. Prior to joining Darby Overseas Investments in 2009, Mr. Aicardi was a Vice President at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in New York, where he worked on structured credit and project finance investments in Latin America. Mr. Aicardi also worked at Bear Stearns early in his career and in several managerial positions in his native country of Uruguay.

Mr. Aicardi holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay.


Speaker at these events:

Bonds & Loans Andes 2022 - Virtual Conference

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

Bonds, Loans & Derivatives Andes 2020