Sigiriya Advisors

The Right-hand Partner for Sponsors and Management Teams navigating the complexities of Debt & Mezzanine Capital Raising – arranging tailored capital solutions, driving down all-in costs, and structuring terms that enable growth with more flexibility

$1 Bn+ of Debt & Mezzanine deals advised on or invested in – and we’re just getting started

OUR TEAM

40 experts.
1 focus.

Our large team of specialists brings more to the table.More manpower, more information and more activerelationships. The result? Unsurpassed reach in everycorner of the globe – across all sectors.

MEET THE TEAM

Our Team

Sahan Abayarathna

Managing Partner

Sahan is a multi-strategy credit investor and advisor with a deeper bench in a multitude of asset classes and industries.

At his prior role at Highland Capital, he invested in opportunities ranging from private credit & opportunistic investing to traditional middle-market private equity. He also served as interim president of the firm’s privately held BDC, overseeing private credit and syndicated loan investing, regulatory compliance, and cash management and accounting – while stabilizing the platform during a liquidity crisis and re-establishing the underwriting framework and investment committee process.

He has held leadership roles as a member of Steering and ad hoc Noteholder / Lender committees in major restructurings (Fieldwood Energy, Peabody Energy, FirstEnergy Solutions) and served on the boards of CCS Medical and TerreStar.

His prior experience includes alternative investing and leveraged finance at BBVA, Pine River Capital, Simmons & Co. (now Piper Sandler), and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Sahan earned a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, with an Emerging Scholars distinction in Chemistry.

Frustrated by inefficiencies in middle- and lower-middle-market private credit, he founded Sigiriya Advisors to help Sponsors and Management Teams raise debt and mezzanine capital – on time, in full, and on the best possible terms.

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.

Ronald “Rip” Noyes

Vice President

Rip is a global capital raising and financial services
operations executive. He was previously COO at Primary Insight, an “expert network” which was formerly part of JP Morgan. He joined the company as VP of Sales before transitioning to MD of Account Management, focused on business development with a multi-million dollar book that included leading international private equity, hedge fund, and consulting firm clients.

Prior to this, he managed due diligence and operations
for another renowned expert network, Coleman
Research, before starting the company’s Raleigh, NC
research headquarters from inception. He was then
recruited to expand North American operations for
Business Connect China, a leading Chinese provider of
primary research, market research, deal sourcing, and
market data.

He began his career by developing and
managing McGraw-Hill’s TMT team in New York.

Rip graduated cum laude with a BA in English Literature
from Amherst College.