Serial Entrepreneur Dulinda Perera joins ARA Holdings Board of Directors

 

ARA Holdings, a home grown diversified conglomerate holds major investments in the areas of Architecture, Construction, Designing, Leisure, Hospitality and other multiple industries has been recently acknowledged as one of the fastest growing corporate entities in the Island. Among its notable fully owned subsidiaries remains Amoda Rathnayake Associates – Sri Lanka’s premier design consultancy firm, JB Construction  and its recent addition, BLAC which has captivated colombo through their unqiue culture, ambience and food.

“Elated to have joined the Board and looking forward for better and bigger things with the ever so talented team at ARA Holdings. The commitment of ARA Holdings of creating happy spaces deeply resonates with my personal ideologies and I believe we are just getting started. Excited for what the future holds”, said Perera.

Upon requesting for comment, the group’s founder and chairperson, visionary designer Amoda Rathnayake went on to say, “We are delighted to welcome Dulinda to our board in the capacity of an Executive Director/Shareholder. ARA Holdings represents a culture of being innovative and bold. Our commitment to designing and creating happy spaces remain in the same perspective and we look forward to many more collaborations in pursuit of growth. We are confident that Dulinda will bring in that much needed propulsion for the entire team”.

Dulinda Perera boasts a dynamic career with verstalile experience across the board with being renowned for his expertise in Brand building and strategy formulation. He currently serves as the Founder/CEO of IKON Group of Companies while also holding multiple other consultancy engagements with both local and foreign based entities.

Perera is a proud alumni of St. Joseph’s College – Colombo and University of Moratuwa, from where he holds his Bachelors in Engineering. Perera further holds a Masters in Business Administration from University of the West of Scotland (UK) and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant accredited from CIMA (UK). Furthermore he is a member of the chartered institute of Marketing MCIM (UK) as well as a member of the Chartered Professional Managers MCPM.