Leadership
Guillermo Muniz
Founder & Managing Principal
Guillermo brings nearly two decades of distressed mortgage asset management, from acquisition through final resolution. As Portfolio Manager at Kondaur Capital (now GITSIT Solutions), he managed and liquidated more than 1,500 non-performing loans with combined collateral value above $200M. At Anders Capital Group, he managed a $100M distressed mortgage fund and resolved roughly 1,000 more loans.
He worked each loan from boarding to liquidation: collateral defects, borrower outcomes, legal complexity, title challenges and market timing. When the software he needed to run those portfolios didn’t exist, he built it. He holds an MBA from California State University, Fullerton.
Steve Guzman
Director of Operations
Steve brings distressed mortgage experience across asset management, capital markets and collateral. As a Portfolio Manager at Kondaur Capital (now GITSIT Solutions), he managed distressed loan portfolios, and his capital markets work includes executing institutional loan trades.
He also brings consulting and technology experience. At Ernst & Young, he worked in Business Consulting with a focus on growth and operations, and he consulted for Splunk on enterprise security and analytics. He holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.
Built on the Buy Side
We managed distressed portfolios before we built Paragon, and we saw the same thing on every book: the files with collateral problems were the ones that stalled in foreclosure. So we built a firm that fixes the collateral, resolves the complicated files, and offers clients asset management software to track every loan to liquidation.
Along the way, we built direct relationships with some of the largest sellers of non-performing loans, including HUD, and partnerships with estate and probate law firms that handle personal representative filings when a borrower has passed. Those relationships let us resolve certain defects faster than firms that work through intermediaries, and move estate files that would otherwise sit.
