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Sharmila recognised at Career Women Awards Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Sharmila Arasaratnam was recognized at the Professional and Career Women Awards as one of Sri Lanka’s Top 50 Women for 2020 by Women in Management (WIM) Sri Lanka and the Maldives, IFC and Australian Aid for the contribution made in the field of Marketing and Advertising.
Sharmila Arasaratnam is the Director Marketing at Gamma Pizzakraft Lanka, sole franchisee for Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in Sri Lanka. She is a Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. A past pupil of Ladies College, Colombo, she was named one of the 50 Most Influential Marketing Leaders at the World Marketing Congress in 2015 and was recently included in the LMD Business Who’s Who Sri Lanka 2020 edition.
Pasan Wanigasekara assumes duties as Director General of BOI
January, 7, 2021
Pasan Wanigasekara assumed duties today (07) as the new Director General of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, the Investment Promotion Agency of the Government of Sri Lanka.
In his address to the senior staff Wanigasekara shared his vision for the BOI: a dynamic and robust outfit that is armed and competent to compete internationally with all other countries that are vying for a share of the global FDI pool.
He emphasised the importance of research based targeted marketing campaigns and canvassed the support of all staff members to make the BOI a more proactive, customer-centric unit that acts with an utmost sense of urgency. He also vouched to accelerate the transformational initiatives of his predecessor and current Chairman, Sanajaya Mohottala in making the BOI a One Stop Shop for global investors.