Darshana Tissera

Darshana Tissera has been with CleanTech Capital Advisors since 2012 — effectively since the firm's founding by Managing Partner Ben Lynch — and holds the title of Vice President. On the firm's team page he sits alongside Ben Lynch (Founder & Managing Partner), Associate Directors Guy Ranawake and Godefroy Motte, and Executive Assistant Carole Barry. His work centers on transaction execution: financial analysis, corporate valuation, and running capital-raising and M&A processes for cleantech companies.

Before joining the firm, Darshana spent several years in the Middle East from 2007, first as a financial analyst for one of the largest retail and real estate groups in Saudi Arabia, and subsequently as a corporate valuation analyst for Arabsat, the largest fixed-satellite service provider in the MENA region. Earlier in his career he worked as a sell-side equity research analyst in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and as an accountant for a US-based software development company — a path that grounds his transaction work in both valuation and public-markets analysis.

On qualifications, Darshana is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA/CGMA) of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), qualified in 2001, and earned his MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, in 2008. Some professional listings additionally associate him with a Master of Finance (Lazaridis School of Business, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and CPA credentials; treat those as secondary/unverified against the firm's own bio, which cites the ACMA and MBA.

• He is an advisor, not a fund — CleanTech Capital Advisors provides "Capital Raising, M&A and Strategic advice" to cleantech and climatetech companies; it does not invest off its own balance sheet. Darshana's role is to structure and run those processes.
• Sector conviction is CleanTech/ClimateTech, broadly defined — the firm positions itself as "Europe's pre-eminent and most longstanding corporate finance advisory firm for the CleanTech & ClimateTech sector," working across the full range of subsectors rather than a single vertical.
• Deal focus is growth-stage private financings and trade sales — the firm's track record clusters around Series A through Series D equity rounds, convertible notes, and strategic M&A (minority stakes, buyouts, joint ventures) rather than pre-seed/seed.
• Value-add framing: the firm describes helping clients reach "optimal transaction outcomes (timing, valuation, terms, strategic fit)" through "perfection of their equity story, knowledge- and relationship-based matching to the ideal counterparties, [and] rigorous process management."