Leadership

Ashique M. Ali Discusses Strategies to Unlock Opportunities and Drive Growth Beyond Sri Lanka

Walter Link has been working with companies and governments for over 30 years to make sustainable growth mainstream. He now says for businesses to aim for sustainability itself is no longer enough.

Due to interventions, Sri Lanka’s markets including ones for money, foreign exchange and commodities were distorted in 2021. Our panel of investment experts take on asset allocation in a chaotic economic climate.

The future of telcos, according to Airtel Lanka's Chief Executive

Sarvodaya is Sri Lanka’s largest social movement. SDF, a Sarvodaya-backed development finance lender, is raising new capital to back a renewed drive to regenerate villages by linking them to markets

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The Chief Executive of clothing manufacturer Hela Clothing’s intimates business reflects on the pandemic’s impact and importance of aligning teams to a single vision

Joshua is the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Access Engineering Plc. He co-founded the Rs32 billion revenue listed company in the 1990s, building the firm in stages on the pillars of integrity and engineering excellence

Ahamed Aroos is a Director and Chief Executive Officer at Rainco, a homegrown manufacturing organisation transforming its industry amidst the unprecedented Covid storm. He had to confront the tough choices head on to ensure the wellbeing of stakeholders while securing the future of the company

Despite the pandemic, Shamindra Marcelline, who joined People’s Leasing as its Chief Executive only months before its outbreak, is driving the business towards a strategic transformation. Here’s how he is doing it

The Founder Chairman of Navesta Pharmaceuticals defied the naysayers to become the only intravenous drugs maker in Sri Lanka. He is on the verge of opening a second plant and exporting to the European market which will see revenue grow 200%.

With a proven track record in leadership positions for several multinational corporations—for which he was often headhunted, Lackshmindra Fernando could have migrated to another country, but he decided to stay back to build Engenuity into a world-class tech company.

The leaders shaping the future of key businesses of the Janashakthi Group are daring to push the boundaries in insurance and finance, have audacious plans to disrupt and revolutionise the financial services industry, and even solve the country’s housing problem. The goal: create better value for customers, shareholders, employees, business partners, communities, and people from every walk of life.

Ramesh Shanmuganathan knew he wanted to become an engineer even as a pre-teen. Today, when he reflects on his life and career, amidst his numerous achievements and accolades, his greatest excitement came from choosing to write his playbook

Antyra Solutions was co-founded by Niranka T. Perera and Rohan Jayaweera, and the initial core services offerings were a personification of their skillsets. Niranka discusses how the company transformed and learnt to scale in the last two years

Chandaka de Soysa, CEO and Founder of Acquest, is on a mission to bring transparency, visibility and accountability to Sri Lanka’s informal real estate market.

Kukaraj Tharmasegaram and Urmila Chandrasekeram defied the conventional wisdom of startup gurus and cofounded Mintpay, Sri Lanka’s first ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ payment facility.

Sri Lanka’s furniture and woodwork industry has been conventional, traditional, hardly penetrated with innovation, technology and new thinking says Dhanushka Fernando, the CEO of Finez Furniture & Interior, is changing all that.

Before becoming Cargills Bank’s Managing Director and Chief Executive, Senarath Bandara managed the largest state bank in the country. Now, at the helm of Sri Lanka’s youngest bank, he is determined to make a big impact.