Shawn Lesser, President
Shawn Lesser founder and president of Sustainable World Capital, he has long standing relationships with Sustainability Portfolio Managers throughout the World. Shawn has over 15 years of experience in national and international institutional equity sales. His previous affiliations include co- head of international institutional equity at Morgan Keegan in Atlanta GA and Managing Director at NBA Deutsche Bank in Atlanta. Shawn is conversational in both German and Spanish. As a frequent speaker, Shawn showcases his knowledge of renewable energy investing subjects. In addition, he participates with a variety of renewable energy, sustainable technology and advocacy groups including the Sustainable Investment Forum. He also serves on the Board of Team Type 1 Charity.
Michael Whelchel, Co-Founder
Michael Whelchel is co-founder of Sustainable World Capital's Private Equity Fund Division. He has played key roles in the formation of two private equity firms both focused on middle market companies. He has sixteen years experience financing, acquiring, selling, growing, and operating small and middle market companies. His experience has included start-ups and later-stage companies in a range of industries. He is also Managing Director of Watershed
Capital. He received his BA summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Michael is a board member of SJF Advisory Services, the Green Chamber of the South and CreateHere and is a member off the Social Venture Network, Investors Circle, Net Impact, and US Green Building Council.
Aaron Enz
Aaron Enz, has twelve years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance and private capital markets spanning more than 50 transactions across a wide variety of industries. At his prior firm, he helped build one of the most highly regarded, boutique investment banks serving middle market companies in California and he conceived and developed the firm’s emerging cleantech practice. Aaron has extensive experience and domain knowledge within cleantech and sustainable sectors encompassing: water, energy efficiency, wind, solar, waste to energy, industrial technology and sustainable products.
He received a joint degree in economics and mathematics from Western Washington University and a Masters of Business Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and a member of the Security Analysts of San Francisco. Aaron if fluent in German and conversant in Portuguese and Spanish.
