Isankya Kodituwakku

Aitken Spence Hotels built some iconic Sri Lankan resorts in the 1990’s before shifting attention to expanding overseas. Since the long conflict ended here, Spence’s hotel unit has refocused on growing its Sri Lankan business. Its challenge is to maintain shareholder returns as it grows its inventory by 50%

Urban Development Authority’s new Director General Nayana Mawilmada thinks his challenge is two-fold. First, to approach city planning with an eye for an integrated system-wide approach and, second, to limit the State’s role to laying the foundation for private investors to take on development projects

By diversifying, United Motors has softened the impact of import duty fluctuations and even leveraged a few benefits.

Building on WSO2’s cost-saving open-source middleware, Mitra Innovation has developed a construction industry product that emulates the open source model.

Emojot caters to impatience, allowing today’s increasingly distracted web users to respond to content in a matter of seconds.

Alleged tender process anomalies and an entrenched coal mafia have polluted Norochcholai’s coal procurement from the very start of operations. Cleaning up this act won't be easy

Net metering helps consumers tackle their high electricity bills while increasing Sri Lanka’s green power generation

Owning unconventional collectible assets can be a delightful experience. Besides the joys of ownership, their returns are reasonably good, but risks including liquidity are also elevated

Careful succession planning and awareness of consumer trends have transformed umbrella manufacturer Rainco into a provider of merchandise that not only protects from the weather, but also helps consumers enjoy it.

Tony Nadaraja credits his rise from a casual worker to Chief Executive at Hirdaramani Group to an ethos that promotes and nurtures its employees.

Hirdaramani Group has joined other diversified Sri Lankan companies that have set up shared services operations. But rather than running the operation alongside headquarter functions, it has spun off shared services to a separate Group firm, H-Connect

Leapset has reorganized its software engineers into teams of around six people that work collaboratively and independently. The company thinks that this will result in less friction, greater productivity and a new burst of creativity

Vanik was a trailblazer of innovative financial instruments when it issued Sri Lanka’s first listed debenture twenty years ago. The company was decades ahead of its time and overconfidence led to overleveraging. Its star quickly burned out.

A team at Yahoo Research Labs – including Sri Lankan Senaka Buthpitiya – is adapting The low-resolution scanning capability of a smart phone’s touchscr een to work reliably as a biometric scanner