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Over 20 years of managerial experience including significant practical experience in the Energy, Mining, and Power sectors. Solid restructuring skills, and excellent capabilities in negotiations, financial analysis, due diligence, contract analysis, and legal documentation. She has worked on Wall Street and Bay Street on multi-billion projects in Power, Oil, and Gas and has exceptional technical skills.
Shanaz earned an MBA from the Schulich School of Business (Finance and International Business), an Honours BSc in Actuarial Science and a BSc in Statistics from the University of Western Ontario. Shanaz 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 enjoys training NextGen leaders, particularly in Investment banking and research.
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Winter 2025 Research Associate - Grad students preferred
The research assistants will support the research initiatives under the guidance of our team in economics, project finance, SPACS, Venture Capital/PE in this climate, and update a variety of reports we have. We are also looking to have them published. Also looking for data scraping for leads in North America with a variety of filters. Graduate students are more suitable for this role. DELIVERABLES One detailed Research report to be published on our website
2025 Market Research - Investment Banking
What is the main goal for the project? The intern will be required to work well independently and as part of a team. We require Intern/student to develop and implement a strategic marketing plan including developing leads resulting in at least two deals. It will encompass Business Development, Data mining, Financial analysis and sales/marketing. IN WHAT LANGUAGE WILL THIS PROJECT BE PROVIDED/DANS QUELLE LANGUE CE PROJET SERA-T-IL FOURNI : English French (if needed) PROJECT MENTOR NAME/NOM DU MENTOR DU PROJET Shanaz Joan Parsan sjparsan@szc-group.com
2025 Software Engineer - Grad students preferred
What is a CRM system and what can it do? The main purpose behind a CRM system is to use data and automation to achieve our company revenue goals. Import data. Data might entail information about customers, sales, and marketing channel activity. We will be able to use actual data from our own business Set up automations. Automations help ensure important tasks get done without having to execute them manually. Practice automating email sequences to prospective and current customers and deliver freemium content to new subscribers. Monitoring results. Select a few metrics to measure for practice, such as email opens, social media mentions, and conversion rate, and set a date for checking in and deciding how to respond to the results. For example, if the email open rate is lower than we anticipated for a given time period, what improvements could we make to email subject lines to encourage more clicks from subscribers? THE CLEAR DELIVERABLE IS TO ENSURE THAT THE EMAIL C AMPAIGNS INCLUDING THE SCHEDULING TEAM AND CRM FOR CONTACTS TO WORK - The goal is to fix the bugs in Suite CRM to ensure we can send campaigns out flawlessly While the project may be too senior for some, if they have PHP, Angular and Typerscript skills, they can assist us with Suite CRM configurations.
2024 International Framework for 'Banning' Fake news including AI and National Security risks
Our organization is interested in the possibility of dealing with Fake news as it has far reaching consequences. As part of our initial assessment and strategy development, we would like assistance in evaluating the necessary legal process and risks. We would like to work with students to get a picture of what is necessary to address this - understanding that there are different laws in different regions but many commonalities.