Shawn Lesser - Co-Founder & Partner

Shawn Lesser

Shawn has over sixteen years experience in international equity sales with a focus on Europe. Prior to co-founding Watershed Capital Group, Shawn founded the investment bank, Sustainable World Capital, which assists cleantech companies raise capital from European institutional investors. Shawn has been Co-Head and Managing Director of the international equity teams at Morgan Keegan and at NBA Deutsche Bank.

He received his BS in Finance from Syracuse University. Shawn has traveled extensively in Europe and is conversational in both German and Spanish. He is co-founder of the non-profit the Global Cleantech Cluster Association which is committed to the global commercialization of the best-in-class clean technologies. He is an advisor for CleantechKorea and writes for various cleantech publications and is known as the David Letterman of Cleantech for his “Top 10″ series.

shawn@watershedcapital.com