After graduating from Boston University in 1989, Guillaume Taylor started his career as a credit analyst with Intel Corporation (www.intel.com) in the United Kingdom and then from 1992 to 1995 as a treasury specialist in Paris, managing all foreign currency hedging activities of Intel’s European operations and responsible for operating the company’s Euro Commercial Paper program. In 1995, Guillaume Taylor joined Darier Hentsch & Cie (www.lombardodier.com), private bankers in Geneva, as a private portfolio manager. In 2002, he became a partner of de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co. Ltd (www.ppt.ch), a CHF 3 billion+ independent asset and wealth management firm where he oversaw sustainable finance for private clients. He founded Quadia in 2010 (www.quadia.ch) and is the principal of Umbutu (www.umbutu.ch) since 2021.

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Since 2000, Guillaume’s activities have been concentrated on social and environmental finance and developed a deep knowledge of impact measurement. In this context, Guillaume was a board member for 10 years of ECLOF International (www.eclof.org), one of the oldest microfinance institutions in the world, present in 20 countries with over 500 employees. He was also the treasurer of la Fondation Internationale du Banc d’Arguin (FIBA), a major conservation foundation focusing on West African costal regions, part of the MAVA Foundation (www.mava-foundation.org). Guillaume is also a co-founder of Sustainable Finance Geneva (www.sfgeneva.org), a key advocacy association. From 2009 to 2017, Guillaume was a member of the Steering Committee of WWF International’s Campaign for a Living Planet (www.wwf.panda.org). From 2009 till 2017 he was a member of Firmenich’s Sustainability Advisory Council (www.firmenich.com) and from 2016 till 2020 he was a member of the board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (www.gainhealth.org). From 2017 to 2023, Guillaume was a Trustee of the Spirit of the Wild Trust, a South African environmental leadership organisation and acted as chair of the Bergplaas HRH Princess Irene of the Netherlands Foundation, both part of Bergplaas Nature Reserve in the Karoo (www.bergplaas.com). 

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In 2021, Guillaume co-founded Advancing the Sanitation Economy Infrastructure AG (www.ase-infra.com) and is currently vice-chairman of Hanaku AG (www.hanaku.ch), ASE’s parent company. Guillaume also sits on the board of three investment vehicles of the Astanor Group (www.astanor.com) and is board member of RhyThink AG (www.rhythink-sustainability.ch). He currently teaches a course in impact measurement at ISFB (www.isfb.ch).

 

Guillaume presides the investment committee of BACoMaB (www.bacomab.org), a UK based nature conservation trust fund and sits on its board. In this context he is leading a major project for the creation of an economic ecosystem for the Parc National du Banc d’Arguin and the Parc National du Diawling which will be financed by BACoMaB with the support of various government entities. Guillaume was the Treasurer of ProValat (www.tourduvalat.org) until the end of 2024 and is now managing a programme relating investment (PRI) strategy tying part of the foundation’s capital with the nature conservation work of la Tour du Valat’s research institute. He is the president of the executive committee of Montagu Foundation in Geneva (www.fondationmontagu.org) and representing the foundation on the Strategic Committee of Réseau H2 (www.reseauh2.ch) a major public private partnership for the building of a hydrogen ecosystem for mobility. He is currently President of the Fondation Margherita (www.fondationmargherita.org).