About Us

With over 15 years of experience in financial services, Prad is one of our co-founders who brings a wealth of knowledge having worked at Colonial First State, Macquarie Bank, Australian Ethical & IOOF prior to co-founding Advice Lab. He has experience helping advisers better understand and help embed products & processes into their business that give them and their clients value.

Born and brought up in Colombo, Sri Lanka before moving to Sydney, Australia helps him be in a unique position of being able to balance the understanding of Sri Lanka together with the delicate requirements of an ever changing financial planning environment in Australia.

Rachael grew up with financial planning, watching her father establish himself in what was at the time such a small industry compared to today. She followed in his footsteps and has been working in the financial planning industry for over 17 years in a variety of positions, including as a paraplanner for 15 years before taking on the role of adviser in 2017. She is passionate about improving equality and ensuring both men and women have the same financial opportunities. Her focus is on helping her clients protect what's important and plan for the future. She was also a finalist for the 2018 AFA Rising Star of The Year.

Kaveena has been working in the paraplanning industry for over 3 years in Sri Lanka. She first started her career in accounting starting with her bachelor's degree in commerce and after that completed her professional chartered accountancy qualification with ACCA. She has worked in internal audit for Ernst and Young and in accounting for a prominent insurance company in Sri Lanka. Soon after she realized her passion for paraplanning, and the financial services industry and the rest is history. She strongly believes in providing the quality service to our Advisers and helping them meet their goals as well as their client’s goals. She is passionate about empowering women and the younger generation in the workplace by encouraging them to grow and learn within the corporate environment.

With over 8 years of experience in the customer service and BPO industry, Shaniya stepped into financial planning 3 years back. Having started in an advice associate role, Shaniya is now heading the admin department at Advice Lab. She has a strong background in customer service and also has experience working for a leading insurance provider in UK.

Shaniya is very passionate to work with the financial advisers and assisting them to manage their business in terms of their day today administrative operations. She is an enthusiastic traveler, has a sweet tooth and enjoy watching movies and listening to music.