A good Coach is the invisible symphony conductor, who guides you and your team to play beautiful music together, as the audience applauds.

C-suite leaders, senior managers, entrepreneurs, investment managers and public servants trust Surina’s guidance when preparing for dynamic keynote speeches, media interviews, Webinars, investor pitches, industry analyst briefings, Wall Street earnings calls, town hall meetings, panel discussions and client presentations.

An ex-investment banker, Surina helps clients speak in a language investors and other stakeholders understand. Along with direct participation in hundreds of investor Road show presentations, she brings an extensive professional network - including relationships with venture capital, private equity, strategic and fund investors - to every client opportunity.

Surina Piyadasa interviews Robert Mettler,
ex-CEO of Macy's West, Front & Forward
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A Screen Actors Guild member represented by LOOK Talent Agency, Surina draws on twenty years of media training and television expertise to help clients avoid on-camera pitfalls. She has appeared in industrial film and television commercial projects for Apple, BofA, Boeing, Cisco, Comcast, E*TRADE, IBM, Intel, Iomega, JP Morgan Chase, Macy’s, Medtronic, Nike, Oracle, Safeway, Seagate and 3M Corporation.

Surina earned an MBA in finance from Golden Gate University and has completed advanced theatrical training at the prestigious Shelton Studios. She serves on the Executive Committee for the San Francisco Chapter of Business Forums International and is a Mentor at the Founder Institute in Menlo Park,CA.

Passionate about gathering thought leaders together to tackle the enormous, but solvable global water crisis, Surina serves as an Ambassador to Water for People, an industry renowned non-profit international development organization.