Our Team

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Shawn Gehani, P.E.

Based in Toronto, Canada for the past two decades, Shawn comes from the engineering, consulting and renewable energy industries. Over the years, he has assisted dozens of large-scale renewable energy developers structure power projects involving wind, solar and energy storage across North America. In May 2019, utilizing his engineering, contracts and financial background, he made an EB-5 investment. His investment process involved rigorous research and due-diligence on the underlying projects. In addition to carrying out thorough legal due diligence, he carried out independent cashflow stress tests that allowed him to narrow down on the soundest projects. 

Shawn realized early on that immigrant investors were missing from the advocacy landscape and that it was crucial to instrumentalize an advocacy organization whose sole purpose was to protect interests of EB-5 investors. Consequently, in 2021, he co-founded the American Immigrant Investor Alliance (AIIA), a D.C. based 501 (c) (4) that played a critical role in the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act with its successful lobbying for inclusion of investor protection and grandfathering language in the bill. He now directs the strategy and community engagement functions at AIIA. 

Dilip Parameswaran, CFA

Dilip made his EB-5 investment in April 2017 for himself and his family. Dilip is a seasoned finance professional with over 30 years of experience in the Asian financial markets, including 23 years focused on Asian credit and loans. Based in Hong Kong and Singapore, he was the Head of Asia Credit Strategy and Research for international banks and has structured financing for a wide range of industries across Asia. He also served as a Director of Corporate Ratings with Fitch Ratings, Hong Kong, a Senior Rating Analyst with ICRA-India, and an equity analyst with Crosby Securities and NatWest Securities.

In 2012 he founded Asia Investment Advisors Limited, a consultancy focused on institutional and private-wealth investors in Asian fixed income. 

Dilip regularly speaks in international conferences on Asian economies and credit. His articles on credit and investments have been carried in various publications. He comments regularly on television and news media, both print and electronic. (http://www.asiainvestmentadvisors.com/media-quotes.html)