Ajith de Silva elected President of Colombo MBA Alumni Association

New committee members

Ajith de Silva

At the Annual General Meeting held on June 19, at the Galle Face Hotel, Ajith de Silva was unanimously elected to the Chair of the MBA Alumni Association.

Ravi Jayawardana CEO, Maliban Group was Chief Guest and Prof. Indika Karunatilleke Vice Chancellor was Guest of Honour.

De Silva becomes the 28th President of the Association which commits its membership and all professionals to further education and assists the University in all its outreach programs.  

The highlight in their calendar is the platform they arrange for the business community and the highest government officials to analyze the annual appropriation measures so as to be of value to the community. 

In addition, they create awareness in such areas as the environment, governance, accounting and finance and new technological advances.  The professional community participates in these events because they are fundamentally knowledge sharing exercises bringing the latest information on the particular subject.

The members of the Association, all alumni of the University work in high decision-making positions in every brand of organization. Thus, they are an integral part of the decision-making process of the country.

With the wide experience that Ajith brings into his role, the members are assured of a productive year. He is well known in the Boardroom and is able to harness talented business leaders’ practitioners and startups for programs of the Association Further the theme for the year isConnected to Inspire: Professionalism Powering Progress.  Under this theme he has sufficient license to bring together a strong nexus between academia and trade and Commerce.

Ajith de Silva an old boy of Seevali Central College Ratnapura obtained his Bachelor’s degrade in Physics and mathematics from the University of Colombo in 2002, the Master of Business in Studies (MBS) Management of business administration (MBA) in 2010. He also obtained the post graduate diploma from National University of Singapore (NUS). He is now reading for the degree in Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the Open University of Colombo.