Draft:Shanaz Joan Parsan

Shanaz Joan Parsan is a Canadian investment banker. She has worked at [|Szymon Zephan Capital] since June 2014. She has previously worked at Scotia Capital on Wall Street and on Bay Street as a trading policy analyst and as an investment banker in project finance, handling billion-dollar deals in the power and utilities spaces.

Education and career

Ms. Parsan has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business (1997) and degrees in Statistics BSc and Honours BSc in Statistics and Actuarial Science from the University of Western Ontario.

She was the Fundraising Chair for Federal MP for six years and has worked in various capacities as a Fundraiser.

She passed the Derivatives Fundamental Course from the CSI and holds a bilingual certificate (French/English) from Collège Boréal. She is fluent in several European languages. Shanaz fundraises for various political parties and charities and has a keen interest in historical, social, legislative and political issues and is an advocate for active citizenship and higher education.

Shanaz has certificates in Negotiations from Yale University and the University of Michigan in addition to a Certificate in Leadership, Foundational Principles from Harvard. She is a member of the ACG (Association of Corporate Growth) Toronto Chapter.

She blogs for [|Gabby's Rules] to raise awareness about Gallbladder Muococeles in dogs and also on the [|Souls of Animals].

She has trained hundreds of grad students and interns and has a near-perfect rating on Riipen.