Yaksh Birla is an Associate Director at Prosper Marketplace, specializing in Capital Markets since February 2020, following a progression from Senior Associate within the same field. Prior experience includes serving as an Investment Banking Analyst at William Blair from June 2018 to January 2020 and a Summer Analyst at the same firm in mid-2017. Additional roles include Strategic Finance and Procurement at Unitas Global, Private Equity Analyst at Arrowroot Capital, and Full-Time National Serviceman in the Singapore Armed Forces. Yaksh Birla holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business/Managerial Economics from UCLA and a Data Science Bootcamp certification in Machine Learning and A.I. from General Assembly, completed in 2023.