Shankha Palansuriya
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Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis at Prodigy Education
Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) 2016
Shankha Palansuriya is an Analyst on the Financial Planning & Analysis team at Prodigy Education, where he is responsible for forecasting and planning to achieve company-wide objectives, and driving strategy for the company by working cross-functionally with the Product and Marketing/go-to-market teams in particular, to identify, scope and monitor innovative growth opportunities. Prior to joining Prodigy Education, Shankha spent the last five years working with North America's fastest growing technology companies (Seed to Series B) in a strategic advisory capacity, where he assisted clients with building their financial models which enabled the companies that were looking to fuel their growth raise over $15+ million dollars from top venture capitalists in Canada and manage their day-to-day operations.
Shankha graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Finance, completed the CFA Level I exam and is an incoming MBA Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University - Lazaridis School of Business and Economics.
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