Pradeep Siriwardane assumes duties as SLCB General Manager

A multidisciplinary management professional Pradeep Siriwardane has been appointed the General Manager of Sri Lanka Convention Bureau (SLCB) with effect from 1st of December 2016.
Siriwardane has over 20 years of work experience in IT, management and marketing by working in the private and public sectors in Sri Lanka and overseas.He holds a M.Sc. in Management and Information Technology from The University College Dublin, National University of Ireland in Ireland, B.Sc. (Hons) from Trinity University- USA, and he is also a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute-UK, Chartered Professional Member of British Computer Society- UK, member of Chartered Marketing Institute and Charted Institute of Management Accountants- UK. Siriwardane started his career as a System Analyst at NIBM and stepped in to Sri Lanka Army as an IT Officer / Heard of Research and Development from 1997 to 2004. Siriwardane got the opportunity to divert his professionalism and joined as a Marketing Manager at MiTel Limited , a UK-based global solution provider firm and eventually rising to become the Head of Marketing/Operations 
in 2010 .