Mesa's Partners

The partners behind Mesa are values-driven, committed to excellence, and focused on delivering shared positive outcomes with collaborators—stakeholders, partners, clients, and investors—in service to the communities and businesses we support.

Management Team

  • Dustin Brownlow — founder and managing partner of Mesa Capital Partners.

    ​​Dustin Brownlow

    Dustin leads technology piloting and diligence, regulatory relationships and commercial partnerships to advance the field of water solutions. Dustin brings 25 years of hands-on experience commissioning and operating plants and providing strategic market insights, from Waco WWTP to the Permian Basin.

  • Kieran Coleman — founder and commercial strategy and operations lead at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Kieran Coleman

    Kieran drives commercial strategy and operations based on technoeconomic opportunities for technical and business model innovations. He has more than 12 years of catalytic growth experience as former chief of staff at Rocky Mountain Institute, and director of North American market entry strategy and execution for CWP Global.

  • Jason Park CFA — founder and finance, M&A, and corporate integration leader at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Jason Park, CFA

    Jason drives deal underwriting, financial diligence and management, and corporate integration while optimizing commercial processes to increase efficiency and drive revenue. His M&A and FP&A expertise is anchored in experience supporting GE's divestments of Power and Water assets and turnaround strategies.

  • Luca Bondi PhD — sensing, compute, and controls integration lead at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Luca Bondi, PhD

    Luca oversees integration of advanced sensing, compute, and controls solutions. He has more than 10 years of experience with sensing and actuation as leader of Bosch Research's SensingAI technology team and has conducted research supported by the US Defense Research Projects-Agency and NASA.

Advisory Board

  • Dr Hubert Fleming — global water technology and infrastructure advisor at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Hubert Fleming, PhD, P.E.

    Hu provides strategic oversight on technical diligence, governance, and global partnership development. Hu brings 40 years of experience pioneering technology and corporate deployment models in water and wastewater sectors, from Zenon Environmental to Severn Trent, Hatch, Goldman Sachs, and Upwell Water. 

  • Martin Hauschild — advanced desalination and brine valorization advisor at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Martin J. Hauschild, CD, MSc

    Expert in advanced desalination and brine valorization as COO of Blue Brine and former CEO of Seprotech Systems, with decades of experience commercializing membrane technologies and decentralized wastewater solutions worldwide

  • Dr Upmanu Lall — global hydrology and climate resilience advisor at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Upmanu Lall, PhD

    Global expert in hydrology and climate resilience, Founding Director of the ASU Water Institute and former head of the Columbia Water Center, advising governments and industry on drought, flood, and water security.

  • Fang Fang — U.S.–Asia business and civic leadership advisor at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Fang Fang

    Advisor and civic leader driving U.S.–Asia business collaboration as CEO of Big Plan LLC and City of Austin Airport Commissioner, advancing global trade and inclusive economic growth.

  • Dr Cyrill Yee — climate-tech and bipolar membrane innovation advisor at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Cyrill Yee, PhD

    Climate-tech investor and founder of Bardo Climate, developing next-generation bipolar-membrane technologies, and former RMI Principal who co-founded Third Derivative, the global climate-innovation accelerator.

  • Mark Desantis — AI, energy, and infrastructure entrepreneur and advisor at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Mark Desantis

    Experienced founder, buyer and seller of early-stage companies across energy, AI and infrastructure — investor and venture advisor with global reach and multiple exits to GE, Michelin and others

Venture Partners

  • Audrey Hackett — international ESG and natural-resources strategist, Mesa Capital venture partner.

    Audrey Hackett

    International environmental and social governance strategist in natural resources. Chief ESG Officer at CWP where developed, implemented sustainability strategy. Chief of Staff to Rio Tinto group chief for HSE.

  • Youssef Takki Chebihi — EMEA business development and political networks venture partner at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Youssef Takki Chebihi

    Deep EMEA political and business connections and sales experience, having led BD for General Electric in MENA for 15 years and originated $10B in large MENA power projects with CWP.

  • Todd Clewett — global mining government-relations expert and venture partner at Mesa Capital Partners.

    Todd Clewett

    Expert in global mining as former head of global government relations for Fortescue & Newmont, and with ties to current U.S. and Australian gov’ts and miners as independent consultant.

  • Ryan Lemli PE — water project origination and transaction leader, Mesa Capital venture partner.

    Ryan Lemli, P.E.

    Leader in water project origination, transaction, and execution. Senior water strategy manager at AWS, previously drove Cambi vertical integration and served as director of BD and operations at Veolia.

A Team Built for the Complexity of Water Infrastructure

Operating Experience Meets Investment Discipline

Mesa Capital Partners is built around a team that has operated water and wastewater systems directly — not just underwritten them. The management team brings hands-on experience commissioning plants, managing regulatory relationships, and running operations across the Southwest. That operating depth is paired with structured investment capabilities in M&A, project finance, and financial modeling. The combination allows the firm to evaluate acquisition targets and BOO projects with a level of technical and commercial rigor that purely financial teams cannot replicate.

An Advisory Board That Amplifies Every Deal

Mesa Capital Partners’ advisory board is not ornamental. Each member brings active domain expertise — in membrane technology and patent strategy, hydrology and water resource science, technology commercialization, international capital markets, and municipal infrastructure development. These advisors sit at the intersection of the sectors Mesa operates in, and their involvement shapes how the firm evaluates technology risk, navigates regulatory processes, structures project finance, and thinks about long-term value creation. The advisory board is a working asset, engaged deal by deal where their expertise creates measurable advantage.

Collaborative by Design, Accountable by Commitment

Water infrastructure is a team sport — no single discipline is sufficient to originate, structure, finance, build, and operate a project. Mesa Capital Partners is structured to reflect that reality. The management team operates as an integrated unit, with each partner owning a defined domain while remaining actively involved across the deal lifecycle. That structure creates accountability without silos, and collaboration without confusion about roles. Investors, municipalities, and technology partners engage with a team that is aligned internally and capable of moving decisively — from first contact to financial close to day-one operations.