Leading ICT veteran Chrishan Fernando joins Netsys Solutions board

Leading ICT veteran Chrishan Fernando joins the board of Netsys Solutions from February.  

Fernando is an experienced IT leader, with over 25 years of experience working for leading global IT companies. He started his international career with Compaq Computer in 1997 and was based in Singapore covering South Asia markets. Later, with the merger of HP, he moved back to Sri Lanka, his country of birth and started the HP office in Sri Lanka.  

Head hunted by IBM in 2009, to be Country General Manager for Sri Lanka’s biggest IT company, he led the introduction of new lines of businesses such as software and IBM’s Global Business Services to the Sri Lanka market. At Dell Technologies, he was Country Manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Under his leadership, Dell reached No 1 in market share for consumer and commercial business in Sri Lanka.

He also served Fiserv as it is Director Sales in Sri Lanka and is now a keen promoter of skills education in Sri Lanka and believes that Sri Lanka can rise to new heights by capitalising on the very adaptable human resources.
He has an MBA in Marketing and is a Certified Professional Marketer Asia Pacific and a Certified Director from the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors.  He is married and has two daughters, loves socialising, photographing nature and watching sports. 

Referring to his new role, Fernando noted, “I would like to bring all my experience gained through working with the leading MNCs for many years to facilitate Netsys Solutions’ journey towards the leading system integrator in the Asian region.”

Netsys Solutions Founder and Managing Director Thusitha Alwis stated that the company envisages to tap on to his vast experience in the area of sales and consultancy to forge the company’s next phase of growth in the region. 

Netsys Solutions is one of the leading ICT and ELV network solutions provider over the last decade, with projects within the country and region. Its portfolio of products and solutions ranges from data storage consolidations, passive and active infrastructure, security solutions, virtualisation solutions, active directory servers to security infrastructure. Its operations have positively impacted businesses as well as people in Sri Lanka and in various other countries in the region in diverse industries, with business solutions that were developed and implemented with its strategic partners.