Our board of Directors
The Board of Directors at hSenidBiz provides leadership by setting and implementing policies to achieve the company's goals.
The Board of Directors at hSenidBiz provides leadership by setting and implementing policies to achieve the company's goals.
Appointed to the Board on October 5, 2005.
Dinesh B Saparamadu is the Founder and Chairman of the hSenid Group of Companies. He began his career with Aetna Life and Casualty, Connecticut, USA, where he worked as an Enterprise Technology Consultant. He then joined Pepsi Cola in New York as a software professional.
As an entrepreneur in Sri Lanka, he has established over twelve companies over the course of three decades. The hSenid Software International Group is a leader in the enterprise and mobile application market and serves 45 countries with thousands of customers worldwide. The latest company founded by Dinesh is Applova Inc. based in Silicon Valley, USA and focuses on delivering innovative e-commerce solutions for restaurants.
Dinesh is extremely passionate about supporting Sri Lanka’s IT industry and is a Founding Member and Past Chairman of Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM). In appreciation of his contribution to shaping the ICT landscape in Sri Lanka, he has been recognised locally and internationally on several occasions, receiving the “ICTA Most Outstanding Contribution Award” in 2012, “Sri Lankan Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in 2014 and the SLASSCOM Chairman’s Award in 2016. Dinesh has an MSc in Computer Science and BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Bridgeport,USA, and he completed the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, USA.
Appointed to the Board on August 20, 2007
J. M. Sampath K. Jayasundara has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry, joined hBS as Project Lead in the year of 2000 and gradually gained expertise to manage the entire operations of hSenid Business Solutions Limited as Executive Director (Non Independent) / Chief Executive Officer after holding key positions as, Manager Operations, Head of Business Development and General Manager.
After his first degree & Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Colombo and then an MBA at Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, he is serving as a lecture panel member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) of Sri Lanka, he is a lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Finance and Management faculty of the University of Colombo for postgraduate studies.
Sampath is also the Co-founder/ Director of Pioneer Institute of Business and Technology (Pvt) Ltd.,an institute offering IT and Business degree programs in affiliation with the University of Greenwich, UK. He serves as a Director at SLASSCOM, the industry chamber for the IT/BPO industry and member of the Advisory Committee of ICT/BPM sector of the Export Development Board.
Appointed to the Board on September 20, 2021
Dishnira Saparamadu is the founder and CEO of Thambili Island (Pvt) Ltd. She graduated from the University of Nottingham in UK where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, Accounting and Management with an emphasis on Marketing.
Possessing a keen interest in marketing, she went on to undertake Digital Marketing training at General Assembly in San Francisco, USA. Upon returning to Sri Lanka, she began her first job as a Business Analyst at MilleniumIT ESP. Following her stint in IT Services, she took the bold move of building her own fashion label.
As a young entrepreneur with a firm determination to build her business on the pillars of ethical fashion and community empowerment, Dishnira founded Thambili Island (Pvt) Ltd. and works closely with a talented group of local artisans. With a proven track record in Digital Marketing and Strategy, Ms. Saparamadu is a Marketing consultant to AppiGo International, a B2B ecommerce platform serving restaurants, retailers and grocery providers island-wide.
Appointed to the Board on November 21, 2011
Apurva Udeshi is the Managing Director of Argent Capital, Founder of Aiken Labs, Co-Founder of Avantrio & Founding Board Member of the Lankan Angel Network. He has over ten years of experience in Investment Management and over five years in Technology.
Argent Capital was set up by Apurva in 2011 and is a sector agnostic structured fund that invests across Private Equity, Listed Equity, Fixed Income Trading, Real Estate and Startups. Aiken Labs & Avantrio are software services development studios that specialise in designing, prototyping, building and integrating high-tech platforms and software solutions.
Apurva earned his undergraduate degree in Computing from Imperial College, London where he graduated with First Class (Hons) placing him in the top 10% of his class. He is also a Dissertation Prize Winner. He began his career at Nomura International, London, where he worked for a year trading European Convertible Bonds before moving to Kotak Mahindra, London. At Kotak, he set up the London Bond Trading Desk and headed it for three years.
Appointed to the Board on September 20, 2021
Malinga Arsakularatne is the Co-Owner / CEO of Acorn Group. He has 25 years of experience in investment management, corporate finance, business strategy and general management. He was with the Hemas Group for 16 years until March 2020.
During his last four years at Hemas, he worked in the capacity of Managing Director of the Leisure Travel & Aviation Group, and in the capacity of the Group CFO during the preceding nine years. He was also a Board Member of Hemas Holdings PLC for over six years and the Serendib Hotels Group for over 13 years, until March 2020.
Currently he serves on the Board of Union Assurance PLC as an Independent Director and the Chairman of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee. He is a CFA CharterHolder and a Past President of CFA Sri Lanka. He is also a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, and a Past Board Member of the CIMA Sri Lanka Division. He holds a BSc in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, an MSc in Investment Management from Cass Business School, and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Appointed to the Board on September 20, 2021
Madu Ratnayake is the Executive Vice President, Global Chief Information Officer at Virtusa Corporation. Virtusa is a global provider of digital business strategy, digital engineering, and information technology services to Fortune 1000 companies across North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
Madu is part of the Executive Leadership team at Virtusa that led its growth from start-up stage to USD 2 Bn NASDAQ listed public company with over 28,000 team members globally. He serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Hatton National Bank PLC and provides strategic oversight for the bank’s digital journey. He is a board member of the government’s digital agency, ICTA and cybersecurity agency, SL CERT.
He plays several advisory roles across academia and tech start-ups in India and Sri Lanka. He is the former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM), the industry chamber for the IT/BPO industry. Madu holds a Bachelor’s in Software Engineering from City, University of London and an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, Sri Lanka. More recently he received an Executive Certificate in Digital Business Strategy from the MIT Sloan School of Management
Appointed to the Board on September 20, 2021
Anarkali Moonesinghe has over 20 years of Investment Banking experience in Europe and Asia, particularly in Asian Emerging Markets. She received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and serves on the Investment Committee of the Angel Fund, the first fund initiated by the Lankan Angel Network with an AUM of LKR 100 million from 100 Angel investors. Ms. Moonesinghe currently serves as a Director on the boards of WealthTrust Securities (Pvt) Ltd., a primary dealer; the Lankan Angel Network, a platform for private investors who invest in high growth early-stage Sri Lankan ventures; and the GoodLife X, an accelerator programme aimed at supporting start-ups and more mature companies in scaling regionally and globally.
Anarkali is also a Partner at Amura Consulting, a Singapore based financial advisory services boutique which focuses on small to mid-cap transactions in frontier markets, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and financial structuring. Ms. Moonesinghe started her career with Merrill Lynch in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance.
Appointed to the Board on October 3, 2022
Dr. Arittha Wikramanayake is a veteran Corporate and M&A lawyer. During his tenure as the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he played a pivotal role in the development and formulation of fundamental laws, regulations and policies – including the formulation of the Takeovers and Mergers Code. He thereafter served as the Precedent Partner of Nithya Partners (Attorneys-at-Law) for nearly 25 years, where he was the driving force in consolidating its position as one of the dominant corporate law firms in Sri Lanka.
As one of the leading capital market experts in the country, Dr. Wikramanayake has served in various key regulatory and policy formulating bodies including the Sri Lanka Accounting and Monitoring Standards Board, the Public Enterprises Reform Commission and Committees for the formulation of Codes of Corporate Governance. He also served as the Chairman of the Company Law Advisory Commission, a Member of the Advisory Commission on Intellectual Property Law and as a Member of the National Trade Negotiation Committee appointed by the Cabinet of Sri Lanka to negotiate Free Trade Agreements with Singapore, India, China and Thailand. He is presently a member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka. In addition, he has been consistently ranked as a leading individual in the fields of Corporate and M&A by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
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