LEGENDS OF BUSINESS
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CAPTAIN OF COMMERCE
Deshamanya Sohli Captain CIC Holdings Deshamanya Sohli Captain has been honoured with many accolades in his 60 plus years of leadership and accomplishment. He has been listed among the most…
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GRANTING GODFATHER
Deshabandu Reggie Candappa Dentsu Grant (Formally Grant McCann Erickson) The world of advertising attracts the most multifaceted and variedly talented men and women – and so it was the ideal…
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VESTING AMBITION
Deshabandu Bernard Botejue Bernard Botejue So many anecdotes of enterprise recount that ‘single moment’ when careers take a turn and an idea takes hold that is transformed into an entrepreneurial…
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THE HIGHFLYER
Lilamani Dias Benson MullenLowe Sri Lanka (Formally LDB Lintas) Those who had the good fortune to have known and worked with Lilamani Dias Benson would probably be familiar with her…
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CULTURAL ICON
Deshamanya Geoffrey Bawa Edwards, Reid and Begg Deshamanya Geoffrey Bawa not only defined an architectural style, he envisaged a cultural identity that has come to be received as and represent…
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TEAM PLAYER
Deshamanya Ken Balendra John Keells Holdings No other name is as synonymous with corporate leadership in Sri Lanka as that of Deshamanya Kandiah (Ken) Balendra. There is something in the quality of…
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AUDITORY ACCOUNTANT
Rajan Asirwatham KPMG Sri Lanka Rajan Asirwatham recounts in his own words in a letter: “I remembered the old maxim I had been taught, that when in the presence of…
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MAGNANIMOUS MAGNATE
J. J. Ambani Metropolitan Group In an appreciation in the Sunday Times, a friend so tellingly wrote: “In the course of life, we meet people we would have liked to…
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DEFINING ALTRUISM
Mahendra Amarasuriya Commercial Bank of Ceylon There is no doubt that there have been many defining moments in the life and times of Mahendra Amarasuriya. Any man or woman with…
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UNORTHODOX LEADER
Hemaka Amarasuriya Singer (Sri Lanka) For almost three decades, Singer (Sri Lanka) and Hemaka Amarasuriya were mentioned in the same breath – for this was his corporate alma mater, which nurtured…
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