Pras Kayilasanathan on Blogger: July 2020

There is a lot of discussion in the tech community re: GPT-3.

Here is a solid piece from the Verge regarding the same:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/11/21287966/openai-commercial-product-text-generation-gpt-3-api-customers

About Pras Kayilasanathan

A Canadian-based financial professional, Pras Kayilasanathan is a senior leader on the mergers and acquisitions team at BDO Canada, LLP. In his capacity as a Director, Pras serves as an advisor to clients and companies with respect to their capital structuring, acquisition strategies, and divestitures. Beyond that, he also handles all other aspects relating to M&A transactions, from deal origination, to negotiation, and, ultimately, execution. Pras Kayilasanathan has been a Director at BDO Canada, LLP since 2018, and has played an integral role in numerous transactions including PayFacto’s acquisition of Posera, and CIC Capital's marquee investment into Highlight Motor Group.

Mr. Kayilasanathan began his career over a decade ago. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies from Trent University, and an MSc. in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, he joined Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP, as a corporate lawyer shortly after graduating from the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University (as a JD-holder). Pras practiced corporate finance and M&A law for several years, acting for both public and private buyers and sellers. Between law and investment banking, Pras briefly led business development for CentrePoint Capital Advisors.

Following his work in business development, Mr. Kayilasanathan returned to the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University to earn his MBA. This enabled him to join Jefferies, LLC, as an Associate in the Investment Banking department in New York City. In his role as an investment banker for Jefferies, LLC Mr. Kayilasanathan completed domestic and international financial transactions for numerous corporate issuers and private equity firms, including FLY Leasing, DHX Media and SESAC. After some years in New York City and gaining Wall Street experience and broad exposure to US capital markets, Mr. Kayilasanathan decided to parlay the experience and know-how back home (Toronto, Canada) to BDO Canada, and thus he subsequently assumed his current position as a Director on BDO's Toronto-based M&A team.

Pras Kayilasanathan on Blogger

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Published: Scarborough Health Network Raises Money to Support Healthcare

Monday, July 27, 2020

Published: How can you tell it’s an Election Year? The relief keeps coming $$$…!

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Published: Shopify vs. BigCommerce

Monday, July 20, 2020

Published: Payfacto Grows Presence in Canada and Around the World

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Interesting Technology

Friday, July 17, 2020