LBR LBO Enterprise Summit 2013 – “Building Future Ready Enterprises” – Friday 4 & Saturday 5 October 2013

Guest Speakers Faizal Salieh Managing Director Amana Bank      

Faizal has extensive experience in banking both in Sri Lanka and overseas. He has held top management positions in Grindlays Bank, ANZ Bank and NDB, board positions of several companies and has served on State University Boards and several Government and Non-Governmental Committees in the fields of finance, economic affairs, housing, construction and education. He led the formation of NDB Housing Bank and was its CEO/Director. In 2004 he took a tremendous challenge as Managing Director of an unregulated financial institution, transformed its entire business and established Amana Bank in 2011 as Sri Lanka's first licensed commercial bank operating on the profit and loss sharing business model.

Faizal holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics with First Class Honours and MBA. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Professional Managers in Sri Lanka.

  Guest Speakers Malik J Fernando Director MJF Group      

Malik belongs to the second generation of a tea growing and marketing tradition founded by his father Merrill J. Fernando. Today, Malik and his brother are taking Dilmah to new heights maintaining the same family values, which were imbibed by their father. MJFGroup focuses on global brand marketing of Ceylon Tea under the premium Dilmah brand, launched in 1985. Dilmah offers only the finest products to consumers around the world and the Group shares their success with the community and its workers. Malik had his secondary education at Stonyhurst College, UK.He obtained a Bsc in Management from Babson College,Wellesley USA.

  Session Chair Peter D'Almeida Managing Director N*able      

Peter has worked in the IT industry for 25 years. Starting his career at East West Information Systems, he moved to ComputerLand to launch Sun Microsystems in Sri Lanka. He was subsequently appointed the Country Head for Sun Microsystems in Sri Lanka and later moved to India as the Head of SunService for SAARC. Currently he is a member of the Cisco Asia Pacific ChannelAdvisory Board.Prior founding N*Able, an IT venture, in partnership with Hemas Group in 2008, he was the CEO of Millennium ESP. Peter is engaged in the performing arts as a director and actor; he has been in a number of plays,tele-dramas and movies.

  Guest panelist Kapila Jayawardena Group Managing Director & CEO LOLC PLC      

Kapila has over 27 years experience in banking, out of which nine years was in the capacity of CEO/Country Head CitiBank Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He has varied experience in the fields of Banking Operations, Audit, Relationship Management, Corporate Finance, Corporate Banking,Investment Banking and Treasury Management. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association (SLBA) in 2003/04 and served as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka in 2006/2007. He served as a Director of Lanka Clear, National Institute of Business Management (NIBM) and The Institute of Bankers (IBSL). Kapila has also served in various committees of many professional and private sector organizations. He holds an MBA, is an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost and Executive Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers.

  Guest panelist Hemaka Amarasuriya Chairman/Singer Group Chairman/NDB Group      

Hemaka is currently the Chairman of Singer Group and the Chairman of NDB Bank. He is also on the Directorate of several other companies. His role in Marketing was recognized through his appointment as the First President of the CIM (Sri Lanka Region). He was recognized by the Asia Retail Congress with the “Retail Leadership Award” for his contribution to retailing (2007) and by the CIM, U.K. as a “Visionary Business Leader” for his contribution to the Marketing Profession in initiating revolutionary changes in the consumer market (2009). Hemaka was invited to serve as Chairman of the Interim Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket during 2002/03 and set up the Sri Lanka Cricket Academy. He has also shared the responsibility of developing schools rugby to be the most popular domestic sport in the island.

  Guest panelist Vinya S Ariyaratne MD General Secretary Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement      

Vinya Ariyaratne, MPH,MSc (Community Medicine),MD (Community Medicine), is the General Secretary of Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya. He holds a Doctorate in Medicine from De La Salle University Philippines and a Doctorate in Community Medicine from the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine of the University of Colombo, while he has also obtained an M.Sc. in Community Medicine from the University of Colombo and a Masters in Public Health (International Health) from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Ariyaratne has been a Visiting Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK and has contributed to the corpus of medical literature through articles published in medical journals. He also served as a Lecturer Dr in Community Medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.He was invited to serve as Chairman of the Interim Committee of Sri Lanka

Guest Speakers Prof Uditha Liyanage PhD Director Postgraduate Institute of Management University of Sri Jayawardenepura       Professor Liyanage held many senior industry positions before he joined PIM where he has been the senior faculty member for 19 years. He has published many articles and academic papers in leading journals, both here and abroad, and addressed numerous local and international conferences. An MBA, a Chartered Marketer, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Honorary Fellow of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) an Honorary Fellow of the Asia Marketing Federation. He is a Marketing Consultant; holds board memberships in a number of leading companies in Sri Lanka. He was the Chairman of the CIM Sri Lanka region,and a member of the international Board of CIM (U.K.).He earned his MBA and PhD from PIM.   Session Chair Asanga Ranasinghe Director Unilever Sri Lanka Limited      

Asanga is currently responsible for Brand Building in Sri Lanka for Unilever. He is also one of the four Statutory Directors of Unilever Sri Lanka Ltd. He has over 20 years corporate experience at Unilever. Having joined Unilever as a Management Trainee in 1993 with a BSc (Hons) from University of Colombo, he has held many leadership positions in Research & Development, Manufacturing and Supply Chain before being expatriated to Hindustan Unilever in India in 2002. At Hindustan Unilever, he worked as the South Asia Regional Coordinator for Innovation and Supply Chain for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan & Nepal. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2004 as the Customer Development Director.

Asanga is BSc Hon in Chemistry from University of Colombo and an MBA from PIM. He was also a member of the Regional Board of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Sri Lanka Region functioning as the Head of Corporate Integration & Market Interest Groups – an honorary position. He is a fellow member and a chartered marketer of CIM. He also heads the market interest group in Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on Cosmetics.

  Guest panelist Ramal G Jasinghe Director/CEO Asian Alliance Insurance PLC      

Ramal has 30 years of industry experience, which includes over 18 years in Insurance.Among the positions he held in the past include-President of the Insurance Association, Financial System Stability Consultative Committee of the Central Bank, Council and Management Committee of the National Chamber of Exporters and the National Chamber of Commerce.He has been an active member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and was one of the Architects of the National Business Excellence. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration and is an examiner at the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) where he also serves as a Research Project Supervisor. Ramal holds a MBA and is a Chartered Marketer, Fellow of CIM and the Academy of Marketing Sciences,USA.

  Guest panelist Imal Fonseka CEO Ceylon Biscuits Limited      

Imal is the CEO of Ceylon Biscuits and was the former Managing Director of Hemas manufacturing, Sri Lanka and the Managing Director of Hemas Consumer Brands Bangladesh. He has extensive experience in advertising, brand management, sales management and general management working with multi nationals such as JWT, Unilever, Glaxo-Smithkline and Coca-Cola. Imal has served in the boards of Chevron Global Lubricants (Lanka) PLC and Eureka Technology Partners. Imal graduated from Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK). He is also a Certified Management Accountant, Australia. He has had executive education at leading regional and international management schools. Imal plays an active role in promoting marketing education and the profession in Sri Lanka.

  Guest panelist Indrajit Wickramasinghe Chief Operating Officer NDB Bank PLC      

He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura,a Postgraduate Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing,UK and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. Having joined NDB over 11 years ago he has served as the Vice President covering functions such as, Marketing and Human Resources.He was also Vice President - Head of Retail Banking, a position he held for over 7 years immediately prior to being appointed as the Chief Operating Officer responsible for the business areas of the bank. Before joining NDB, he held the position of Head of Marketing at Reckitt & Colman of Ceylon Ltd. Mr Wickramasinghe has over 22 years of management experience.

Guest Speakers Ranil Vitarana Director MAS Research & Innovation MAS Research & Innovation (Pvt) Limited    

An electronic engineering graduate from Imperial College, he has been with MAS for the last 13 years.Meanwhile, for the last 6 years he has given leadership to MAS innovation and has extensive experience in product process and technology innovation. MAS Research & Innovation has many patents internationally and collaboratively develops intellectual property through joint development agreements with leading fortune 500 companies.

  Guest Speakers Sanjiva Weerawarana PhD Chairman & CEO WSO2      

Sanjiva founded WSO2 in 2005 in order to reinvent the way enterprise middleware is developed, sold, delivered and supported through an open source model. Prior to starting WSO2, Sanjiva worked for nearly eight years at IBM Research where he was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology.

Sanjiva is the original creator of Apache SOAP and an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation.In 2003, Sanjiva founded the Lanka Software Foundation, a non-profit organization formed with the objective of promoting open source development, not usage, by Sri Lankan developers. Sanjiva spent three years at Purdue University as visiting Faculty where he received his Ph.D.in Computer Science.

  Session Chair Deepal Sooriyaarachchi Commissioner SriLanka Inventors Commission      

Deepal Sooriyaarachchi counts over 30 years experience in the field of Sales, advertising, marketing, HR and strategy. He is a renowned management consultant, corporate trainer, author and a communicator. He presently serves in the boards of directors of a number of leading companies in Sri Lanka including AIA Insurance and Sampath Bank.He has served in various professional and public organizations in honorary capacity. Immediately prior to joining the public sector, Sooriyaarachchi held the position of Managing Director of AVIVA Insurance, Sri Lanka. Deepal was recognized by Postgraduate Institute of Management and Institute of Marketing Sri Lanka and CIM for his pioneering efforts in disseminating marketing and management thinking in Sinhala through his “Sinhelen Business”book series.

  Guest panelist Prof Ajith de Alwis PhD Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa      

Prof. Ajith de Alwis completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK following his B.Sc. (Eng) degree at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He also has a MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management, Univ of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Elected as a Fellow to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. Currently serves as the Project Director in the newly established Coordinating Secretariat for Science Technology and Innovation (COSTI) with the express mandate of coordinating and effective realization of STI to support national STI strategy.

  Guest panelist Kasturi Chellarajah Managing Director - Transportation Sector Hemas Holdings PLC      

Kasturi Wilson is the Managing Director of the Transportation Sector of Hemas Holdings PLC. Having joined the group in 2002 as the Finance Director of Hemtours (presently, Diethelm Travels), she was appointed as the Head of Hemas’s Shared Service Unit, Vishwa BPO in 2005. During her two-year stint there, she built a highly motivated business support team which streamlined transaction processing and SBU reporting across the group. In 2007, Kasturi was appointed as the Chief Process Officer of Hemas Holdings where she also managed the group’s Process and IT infrastructure.

She took on her current assignment in 2011 and has since overseen the rapid growth of the Sector especially in Maritime and Logistics. Kasturi is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK and has gained wide experience in audit, consulting, logistics, maritime, leisure and travel in a career spanning over two decades

  Guest panelist Keith Modder Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Virtusa      

Keith Modder heads Virtusa's Advanced Technology Centers in Colombo Sri Lanka and in Hyderabad and Chennai, India. He counts over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Mr. Modder served as Managing Director of John Keells Office Automation and Keells Business Systems Ltd.,two leading IT/OA solutions companies in the John KeellsGroup. He systematically built these companies, which collectively represented IBM, Cisco, Lucent and Toshiba to be market leaders and very profitable ventures of the John Keells IT sector.

He was with the John Keells Group for over eight years and was one of the youngest to be appointed to the post of Managing Director. Prior to Keells,he worked at DMS/WANG for nine years.Mr.Modder serves as an Executive Council member of the Software Exporters Association of of the Board of Directors of the Lanka Open Source Foundation.

  Guest panelist Mack Gill Chief Executive Officer MillenniumIT      

Mack Gill has been in the financial technology industry since 1994, working for one of the largest global vendors of financial-markets software, SunGard. He started in the derivatives software business then later became president of SunGard Technology Services, where he launched and developed SunGard’s software development and client services operations in Asia, scaling the business to 3,000 employees. Later, he also headed the company’s global consulting business,managing over 1,000 consultants worldwide, before being selected to manage SunGard’s overall technology strategy.

Mack was chosen as a member of the Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, and is a Board Member of the Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). Mack holds a B.A. from the University of British Columbia and a Master's from Yale University.He succeeded MillenniumIT founder Tony Weeresinghe as CEO in May 2013.

Guest Speakers Srikanth Gopalakrishnan Global Head of HCM SAP      

Srikanth Gopalakrishnan is a senior product executive with over 22 years of experience in various aspects of product development and implementations.Srikanth is currently the Global Head for the SAP HCM product and has been featured in various customer forums like the India Innovation conference organized by NetApp to showcase global trends in big data. He has also spearheaded the transformation of the HCM User experience to cater to changing trends in content consumption towards mobile devices and is currently involved in taking HCM Products to the cloud.

Prior to SAP he has been with Oracle Corporation working on their Fusion product line. He also has over 10 years of consulting experience with the Peoplesoft product. Srikanth holds a Bachelors degree from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India and a Masters degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. He also has completed an Executive Management degree from IIM, Bangalore.

  Session Chair Rohan Jayaweera Country Consultant Google Inc      

Rohan is the first & the only employee appointed by Google for Sri Lanka. Prior to moving to Singapore to join Google, Rohan worked for Cisco, Lenovo & IBM. Rohan has BSc in electronic & telecommunication from University of Moratuwa, postgraduate diploma in marketing from CIM U.K. and is in the process of completing his MBA in International Business & Masters in Business & Technology. Also holds a professional certification on global strategy from INSEAD. Rohan is passionate about entrepreneurship & does regular lctures at University of Moratuwa. Rohan set up his own

  Guest panelist Dumindra Ratnayake CEO Etisalat Sri Lanka      

Dumindra Ratnayaka is a Board Director of Etisalat Lanka (Pvt) Limited and has held the position of CEO since 2001. He was the Chief Technical Officer of the pioneer telecommunications network in Sri Lanka, Celltel,and thereafter was elevated to the post of CEO in 2001. Mr. Ratnayaka served as the Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce during the years 2002 and 2003 and is a graduate from the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, with a 1st class degree in Electronics and Telecommunications.

  Guest panelist Dinesh Rodrigo Managing Director/CEO Interblocks Limited      

Dinesh has over 20 years of experience in ICT in Banking, Financial Services and Telecommunications Industries. Prior to founding Interblocks in August 2000, Dinesh was a co-founder/Director at Millennium Information where he was involved in Corporate Strategy formulation and management of Sales & Marketing teams. Before being part of a management buy-out that formed Millennium IT, Dinesh had a successful career in IT with ComputerLand (as Sales Manager providing solutions based on Sun Microsystems, CISCO and Oracle), Keells Business Systems, IBM and East West Information Systems.

  Guest panelist Ramesh Shanmuganathan Group Executive Vice President Chief Information Officer John Keells Holdings PLC      

Ramesh has over with 25 years of experience in the ICT industry both in Sri Lanka and the USA, with the last 14 years in C-Level management. Prior to his current role, he has served in JKH’s IT sector as the CEO of Keells Business Systems Limited, as well as Head of Strategy/New Business Initiatives of John Keells Computer Services. Ramesh is a Hayes-Fulbright Scholar, holds an MSc from Rochester Institute of Technology, an MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, BSc (First class) from University of Moratuwa, and presently reading for DBA. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.Ramesh is an active member of several professional institutions and is a visiting faculty member for post-graduate programs.

  Guest panelist Helani Galpaya CEO LIRNEasia      

Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working on infrastructure policy and regulatory issues across the emerging Asia Pacific. Helani is currently principal investigator on a project that is analyzing transaction generated data in the telecom sector to answer social science policy questions. Her other research interest are in e-Government, and has authored international reports on the subject for the UN and the World Bank. She has a MS in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Guest Speakers Pradipta Mohapatra Chairman/Co-Founder,Coaching Foundation India Director, Hemas Holdings PLC      

Pradipta chairs Coaching Foundation India Ltd., one of the largest integrated coaching organizations in the APAC region. His coaching clients include Accenture, Bosch, Cummins, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, HP, HSBC, Levis and Satchi. He has also coached leaders from family businesses from Aditya Birla Group, Murugappa Group, TVS Group, RPG Group and Hemas Group. He has had a long career working for global companies and Indian family houses as CEO and providing oversight to many CEOs. He is an Engineer, Business Graduate from India and attended Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He sits on the Board of seven public companies and thirteen private enterprises in India, China, South Asia,UK and USA.He also sits on the Board of Hemas Plc. Pradipta held many public positions including Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industries,Southern Region.

  Session Chair Shyam Sathasivam Managing Director Swiss Biogenics Limited       Shyam graduated from the London School of Economics &Political Science,UK and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management,Northwestern University, Chicago. He started his career as a Corporate Finance Associate at Arthur Andersen, Londonandon his return to Sri Lanka after his MBA, Shyamjoined Sunshine Holdings PLC as Director. He is currently the Managing Director of Swiss Biogenics Limited, (SBL) which is the healthcare subsidiary of the group, with revenue of Rs 5.2 billion in FY12-13. Happily married to Narayani,who is a speech therapist and they have a son Krishna.   Guest panelist Mahendra Jayasekera Managing Director Lanka Walltiles PLC Lanka Floortiles PLC Swisstek (Ceylon) PLC    

Mahendra has 04 years working experience in the financial services industry and 16 years working experience in the ceramics industry. He is currently Managing Director - Lanka Floortiles PLC, Lanka Walltiles PLC, Swisstek (Ceylon) PLC and Swisstek Aluminium Limited.He is also a Director of Lanka Ceramic PLC & HNB Assurance PLC Mahendra holds an honours degree in B.Sc. Business Administration (Special) from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura & is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.He is the President of Sri Lanka Ceramics Council & Chairman of CENTEC Limited.

  Guest panelist Dirk Pereira CEO Union Assurance PLC      

Dirk is the Chief Executive Officer of Union Assurance PLC. He is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He also holds an MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

  Guest panelist Samantha Rajapaksa Managing Director Associated Motorways (Pvt) Limited      

Samantha Rajapaksa currently serves as the Group Managing Director of Associated Motorways (Pvt) Limited, which is a fully owned subsidiary of the Al Futtaim Group of UAE. Mr. Rajapaksa accounts for over 26 years of local and overseas managerial experience including Director – Softlogic Group, Director/ CEO – Softlogic Communications (Pvt) Ltd.,Senior Project Manager – AT&TUSA, Group Director – Central Finance PLC, Director/ CEO – CF Venture Fund PLC and Director/ General Manager – Informatics International (Pvt) Ltd. Mr. Rajapaksa is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing of UK.

He also holds an MBA Management of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. He is a recipient of Platinum Honours Award from the Postgraduate Institute of Management for Professional Excellence in the field of Management in 2013. Mr. Rajapaksa serves as a Director of AMW Capital Leasing &Finance PLC, Asiri Hospital Holdings PLC and Asiri Surgical Hospitals PLC. He also serves as a Council Member of the University of Colombo.

  Guest panelist Mahesha Ranasoma PhD Managing Director/Dipped Products PLC Director/Hayleys PLC    

Guest Speakers Koshy Mathai PhD Country Representative IMF      

Koshy Mathai is the IMF’s resident representative to Sri Lanka and Maldives and recently served as its mission chief for Fiji. He took up his posting in Colombo in October 2009, before which he was based in Washington, where he worked on a range of countries including the U.S., Turkey, and Zambia. He has been at the IMF for thirteen years.He completed his bachelors degree at Harvard and his Ph.D. at Stanford,both in economics.

  Guest Speakers Indrajit Coomaraswamy PhD Fmr. Director-Economic Affairs Commonwealth Secretariat      

Indrajit Coomaraswamy (born April 3, 1950) is a Sri Lankan economist. He was the former Director Economic Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Educated at Royal College, Colombo, and Harrow School, UK., he gained his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University and obtained his Doctorate at the University of Sussex. Joining the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 1973 he served in the Economic Research, Statistics and Bank Supervision Divisions as a staff officer till 1989. From 1981 to 1989 he was seconded to the Ministry of Finance and Planning.

Thereafter he worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat from 1990–2008, holding the posts of Director,Economic Affairs Division and Deputy-Director, Secretary-General's Office and was brought back to the Commonwealth Secretariat to head the Social Transformation Programme Division, as Interim Director. He currently serves on the boards of leading corporates and think tanks. He played first class cricket during 1971 to 1972 for the Cambridge University team and represented Tamil Union, in Sri Lanka. He also captained the |Sri Lanka and CR&FC Rugby teams.

  Session Chair Nissanka Weerasekera Managing Director/ Sri Lanka & Bangladesh The Abraaj Group    

Mr. Nissanka Weerasekera is the Managing Director responsible for Sri Lanka and Bangladesh of The Abraaj Group,a leading investor in growth markets managing US$ 7.5 billion in assets, operating through 31 offices in Asia,Africa,Latin America and the Middle East. He is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. He graduated from the University of Peradeniya in Physics and holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colombo.

  Guest panelist Rizvi Zaheed Executive Director/Hayleys PLC Managing Director Hayleys Agricultural Holdings Limited      

Joined Hayleys in 1981. Appointed to the Group Management Committee in 2001. Appointed to the Board in August 2004. Holds a B.A. (Hons.) Degree from the University of Kelaniya and a MBA Degree from the University of Colombo.Member of the Agri Cluster of the National Council for Economic Development. Represents Hayleys on the Board of Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (NANCO). Serves on the National Committee on Biotechnology of the National Science Foundation. A current member of the main committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce while having served as Vice Chairman of the Imports Section, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

  Guest panelist Mangala Yapa Managing Director Colombo Dockyard PLC      

A Marine Engineer/Naval Architect by Profession, Yapa currently functions as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Colombo Dockyard PLC. He has been working in various capacities until being appointed to the Board of Directors as the Managing Director/CEO in April 2004 Yapa holds a MSc Honours degree in Engineering (Shipbuilding) from the former Soviet Union,a MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and presently he is reading for the PhD in Management. He received the prestigious Platinum Honours – Achievers Award conferred by the PIM Alumni in 2010, in recognition of professional excellence in management.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) and he also serves in Senior position of many organization both Sri Lanka and overseas in an honorary capacity. He spends time in sharing his experience amongst the universities, vocational training institutes and the industry and takes an active part in the growth and development in the shipping industry from a regional perspective.

  Guest panelist Sanjay Tiwari Managing Director/CEO Piramal Glass Ceylon PLC Chief Operating Officer/ Piramal Glass Limited India    

Before joining the Piramal Group, he held senior positions at ZydusSanjay before joining the Piramal Group, held senior positions at Zydus Cadila Heathcare Ltd., Mumbai, and Torrent Group, Ahmedabad. He has diverse experiences of over 21 years in various positions in different industries such as textiles, colour chemicals, cables, pharmaceuticals, bulk drugs and glass. He holds membership in the Executive Committees/Board of the Industrial Association of Sri Lanka Limited, (IASL), Ceramic & Glass Council of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging, Indo Lanka Chamber of Commerce. Sanjay is the President of the Indian CEO Forum, in Sri Lanka. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce and is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

  Guest panelist Manjula de Silva Managing Director HNB Assurance PLC      

Manjula is a Past President of the Insurance Association of Sri Lanka (IASL) and a committee Member and Chairman of Insurance Steering Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He also served as Director General - Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka. Prior to joining HNB Assurance,he held senior positions at Eagle Insurance PLC in Corporate Lines and Human Resources and also at Eagle NDB Fund Management Company Ltd. Manjula holds a BA (Hons) from University of Colombo and earned his MBA from London Business School. He is also a Fellow Member of CIMA, and presently serves on the CIMA Sri Lanka Board.

Guest Speakers Tarandeep Singh Partner AON Hewitt Asia Pacific      

As an APAC Leader at AON Hewitt , Tarandeep is responsible for managing delivery centers across India, Singapore, Philippines and China with client, people and process management accountabilities. Over the last 17 years, he has straddled across consulting and outsourcing verticals to build a comprehensive business and people perspective. Taran consults with clients across diverse industries on areas of HR strategy, its alignment with business results, organization structuring, and process set-up and performance management.He is also a certified Hogan Coach and works with top leaders on areas of leadership development and succession planning. Tarandeep is a post-graduate with specialization in HR from Mathematics, Statistics and Economics. Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur. He possesses a bachelor degree in

  Session Chair Vidusha Nathavitharana Founder & Cheerleader High Five Consultancy and Training      

Vidusha is the founder and the lead consultant and trainer of High5,a boutique Leadership/Soft Skills and HR Consultancy company. He is a seasoned,hands on HR Consultant/Facilitator and Leadership Trainer with proven results and track record in 6 countries.A creative and innovative problem solver who assists organizations and individuals seek unconventional ways to achieve their fullest potential. He is a values driven leader of a professional network who values output more than input, ethics above profits and sincerity over popularity. Before starting High5,Vidusha worked as the head of HR for Courtaulds Clothing - which at the time was a part of the Sara Lee Corporation. He also worked in Advertising and Marketing. Vidusha holds a BA (Hons) in International Business Administration from the University of Lincoln,and a MA in Leading Innovation and Change from the University of York St. John, UK.

  Guest panelist Dushan Soza Managing Director Sri Lanka WNS Global Services (Pvt) Ltd      

Dushan has over 28 years of diverse work experience in UK, India, Philippines and Sri Lanka and has held many senior leadership positions in industry. In Sri Lanka, he pioneered high-end BPO by setting up premier ‘Finance Centre of Excellence’ and thereafter Legal Services. He has hired and trained over 800 professionals in high-end disciplines, some of who are now playing key roles in the industry. He is considered a thought leader and his contribution has helped to fashion the BPO industry in the country. He was a founder board member of SLASSCOM and currently serves as an Advisor to the EDB and on the board of some prestigious private and local institutions. Dushan is an engineer by profession and a graduate from the University of Reading, UK.

  Guest panelist Harsha Purasinghe Founder & CEO Microimage & WSO2 Mobile      

Harsha is a serial entrepreneur who founded 3 software companies and number of successful products since his debut in software industry. Harsha founded Microimage in 1993 at the age of 19 while at school and it was incorporated in 1995. Harsha developed the company from a desktop language software provider to one of the leading innovative software development companies in the region with global recognition.

In 2013, Harsha Founded WSO2 Mobile Inc. to build a suite of lean enterprise mobileware to solve enterprise mobility challenges. Harsha was recognized as the "Most Outstanding Entrepreneur in ICT/BPO Industry in 2007. He also won CMO-Asia Brand Leadership Award at the CMO-Asia Brand Leadership Awards in 2011,Singapore.

  Guest panelist Udayan Dutt Director-HR & Corporate Relations Unilever Sri Lanka Limited      

Prior to being appointed as the Director Human Resources of Unilever Sri Lanka in February 2012, Udayan was the General Manager - Reward, Unilever South Asia. He was responsible for formulating strategy, devising policies and defining processes for administration of Total Reward South Asia and for organization design, structures and job levels for Unilever’s Asia, Africa and Central Europe Region. He has worked closely with the business at Unilever in devising and implementing Reward Programs that are aligned to and fuel the organization’s growth agenda.

  Guest panelist Faiq Faaiz Executive Vice President MillenniumIT      

Faiq Faaiz currently heads MillenniumIT’s systems integrator business and has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry.He is responsible for managing the continued growth of the company,with a strategic initiative to grow the business globally. Prior to re-joining MillenniumIT in his current capacity, Faiq, together with Tony Weeresinghe and a few others, was one of the founding members of MillenniumIT. He was initially involved in Business Development for the company and subsequently took on the role of the Head of Engineering. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso.