The Right-Hand Partner for Sponsors and Management Teams navigating the complexities of Debt & Mezzanine capital raising – achieving winning capital outcomes, driving down all-in costs, assessing constraints & flexibility for growth, and overcoming difficult & distressed situations.

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Sahan Abayarathna

Managing Partner

Sahan is a multi-strategy credit investor and operator with a deeper bench in a multitude of asset classes and industries. Through his role at Highland Capital, he’s placed and managed capital in opportunities ranging from distressed & special situation to traditional middle-market private equity. On the public side, he has been the junior portfolio manager of select funds with investment strategies ranging from long-only public credit to relative value credit and equity. He has also played leadership and managerial roles including being a member of Steering and ad hoc Noteholder/ Lender group committees for companies in Ch 11 bankruptcy or restructuring (Fieldwood Energy, Peabody Energy, FirstEnergy Solutions) and sat on the board of two portfolio companies (CCS Medical and TerreStar).  His prior roles span alternative investing and leveraged finance/ investment banking at BBVA, Pine River Capital, Simmons & Co (now acquired by Piper Sandler), and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Sahan graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BBA in Finance, with an Emerging Scholars in Chemistry distinction. 

Ultimately, his frustration with the middle market & lower middle market private credit & conventional lending ecosystems led to his desire to create an advisory entity to help better manage the various needs in these spaces. 

The core tenants of starting Sigiriya Advisors include helping Sponsors & Management Teams (i) successfully raise debt & mezzanine capital on-time and in the full amount needed and (ii) at the best possible terms.

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Zachary Pavlosky

Zach Pavlosky

Managing Director

Zach is an experienced financial professional with demonstrated expertise in M&A as well as capital markets advisory. He started his career as an Associate at a LMM investment bank, Focus Investment Banking, where he was part of a team that advised on over $300 million on sell-side M&A engagements for technology, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing clients. Previously, he was a Vice President at a global capital markets advisory firm, Evvolve & Partners, where he led capital placement deals for tech, healthcare, and alternative energy companies raising equity and debt.

Zach is also an advisor to a lending platform that helps smaller borrowers match with alternative lenders that offer bespoke credit solutions, managing dozens of lender relationships specializing in varying loan products and structures.

Zach graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in Pre-Medicine and is a CFA charter holder.

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Advisors & Experts

Nauman Ahmed

Nauman Ahmed

ADVISOR

Nauman is an investment analyst turned product manager with a passion for the intersection of finance and technology. He is currently a Director of Product Management at Sentieo, a multi-framework research tool that is currently being used by hedge funds, investment banks, mutual funds, and other investors to streamline the investment research process. He sits between developers and customers to manage the iterative process of chasing perfection in product in an ever-changing and evolving macro backdrop and investment landscape. He helped to build, develop, and scale their research management and collaboration offerings as the Company grew from seed-stage through its Series A & B raises and to its eventual sale to AlphaSense (with investors including Ten Coves, Centana Growth, and Long Focus, among others). His prior roles include multi-strategy investing and research at Pine River Capital and StreetAuthority. Nauman graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BBA in Finance.

Rijul Raju

Rijul Raju

Advisor

Rijul Raju is a passionate technologist with a tenured experience in both software development as well as managing diverse engineering teams. He has played the role of full stack senior engineer at a variety of companies, including seed-stage companies (Welcome AI Travel, Moonfish) backed by storied venture firms (Accel, Lakestar, and others). Various projects he’s developed and managed at these firms include extensive frontend work (internal CMS hub, data acquisition tools, human-in-the-loop content curation tools), product intelligent instruments, and many others. His programming and scripting languages include Python, TCL, PHP, Ruby, Bash, ASP.NET, C#, RegEx, JavaScript, JavaScript ES6, HTML, CSS, PL/SQL, PL/pgSQL, and Transact-SQL. Rijul graduated Magna Cumme Laude from the University of Houston with a BS in CIS.

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Nitin Agrawal

CPA

Nitin Agrawal is a consultant at Ernst & Young within their Data Modelling and Analytics practice, where he uses expertise in finance and accounting to help CFOs and Controllers across various industries build complex financial models and build reporting processes. His previous engagements include audit and assurance, M&A diligence, and turnaround/restructuring advisory. He is passionate about helping middle market companies make data-driven decisions to fuel their growth and provide insightful commentary to stakeholders. Nitin graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelors in Business Administration (finance concentration) and received a Masters of Accountancy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was selected as a graduate teaching fellow by his professors.

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Haben Tewelde

JD

Haben Tewelde is seasoned tax and M&A focused attorney, helping clients with company formation (domestic and international), organizational structuring including for legal entity rationalization and capital raising, sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory, reorganizations, divestitures, and spin-offs, as well as other related corporate financial and strategic initiatives at KPMG and other firms. Haben has served as the President of Doughnut USA, the US-based subsidiary of the consumer and retail apparel brand based in Hong Kong, China. Additionally, Haben has practiced as a litigator focusing on commercial litigation and international trade at Tailim Whiddon LLP and Stanton LLP. Haben graduated top of his class from the University of Florida’s with a tax law LL.M., from St. Mary's University School of Law with a J.D. (Cum Laude honors), and Texas Tech University with a BBA in Public Relations/Communications, and minors in Spanish and Legal Studies.

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