Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, also known by the initialism A.K., is a Malaysian businessman who is a founder and chairperson of Usaha Tegas and founder of Yu Cai Foundation (YCF).
Deshabandu Victor Hettigoda was a Sri Lankan entrepreneur and a candidate for the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election. He was considered as one of the most successful Sri Lankan entrepreneurs post-independence. He died on 2 April 2022, at the age of 84.
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, doing business as SLT-MOBITEL, is the national telecommunications services provider in Sri Lanka and one of the country's largest companies with an annual turnover in excess of Rs 40 billion. The company provides domestic and corporate services which include fixed and wireless telephony, Internet access and IT services to domestic, public and business sector customers. As of 2018 SLT-MOBITEL was Sri Lanka's second largest mobile network operator with over 7.9 million subscribers.
Thilan Manjith Wijesinghe is a Sri Lankan financier, entrepreneur, former cricketer and musician.
Asoka Milinda Moragoda is a Sri Lankan politician and businessman. He is the current Sri Lankan High Commissioner Designate to India and, former Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament representing the Colombo District from 2001 to 2010, who served as the Minister of Justice and Law Reform (2009-2010), Minister of Tourism (2007–2009); Minister for Economic Reform, Science and Technology and Deputy Minister for Plan Implementation and Development (2002–2004). His last political post was that of Opposition Leader of the Colombo Municipal Council and Senior Adviser to former President Mahinda Rajapakse.
Lebara is a telecommunications company providing services using the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model in the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland and Australia. Lebara provides pay-as-you-go and contract-based mobile SIM cards in these countries, and its brand is also used under license in four other countries.
Jonathan Paul Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners. He is an active private investor and has been working in private equity since 1980. Moulton regularly writes, broadcasts and speaks on corporate finance and financial matters. His career has also included spells running Citicorp Venture Capital, Schroder Ventures (Permira) and the buy-out group of Apax, as well as being a director of numerous public and private companies.
Kandiah Neelakandan was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and the lead partner in Neelakandan & Neelakandan. He died on 18 February 2018 when he was 70 years old.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sri Lanka refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members in Sri Lanka. The first branch was organized in 1978 and has since grown to 5 congregations. Between 2015 and 2019 membership increased by roughly 20%.
Impact investing refers to investments "made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return". At its core, impact investing is about an alignment of an investor's beliefs and values with the allocation of capital to address social and/or environmental issues.
Ratheesan Yoganathan is a British entrepreneur who, with Rasiah Ranjith Leon and Baskaran Kandiah, is best known as the co-founder of Lebara Group. On 10 August 2012 he took on the role of ex-chairman of Lebara Group and returned as CEO in March 2014. He owns about one third of the company's stock. He read aeronautical engineering at Kingston University.
Wijeya Newspapers Limited (WNL) is a Sri Lankan media company which publishes a number of national newspapers and magazines. Formerly known as Wijeya Publications Limited, WNL was founded in 1979 by Ranjith Wijewardene, son of media mogul D. R. Wijewardena. Ranjith Wijewardene had been chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited before it was taken over by the government in July 1973.
Saroj Perera is a Sri Lankan businessman and chairman and managing director of DSL Group of Companies, one of the leading private sector companies in Sri Lanka.
Baskaran Kandiah is a Sri Lankan businessman who is the co-founder and Director of Lebara Group, a European telecoms company with operations in six countries. He is also the Chairman of London Tamil Media, the holding company of IBC Tamil, a popular Tamil TV channel based in London.He is also the owner of ReeCha Organic Farm. He also owns Dick Holdings B.V, registered in Netherlands. He also recently bought Tamilwin, LankaSri, Cineulagam, Manithan, IBC Tamil, LBC Tamil, Viduppu, Canadamirror, JVP News websites and own fair share of Tamil Media empire.
Rajapakshe Wasala Tennakoon Mudiyanselage Ranjith Bandara is a Sri Lankan economist, academic, politician and Member of Parliament.
Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC is a Sri Lankan cement manufacturing company headquartered in Colombo. The company is engaged in manufacturing Portland cement, Pozzolana cement, tile adhesives and other cement products. Sri Lankan entrepreneur, A. Y. S. Gnanam founded the company in 1982. Tokyo Cement Company is a quoted company on the Colombo Stock Exchange since 1984. The company was one of the components of the S&P Sri Lanka 20 Index until June 2022. The company is ranked 29th amongst the LMD 100, an annual list of top 100 listed companies in Sri Lanka by revenue for the 2020/21 period.
Hela Apparel Holdings PLC branded as Hela Clothing is a holding company in Sri Lanka that is engaged in the apparel industry. The company supplies to a number of brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, and Michael Kors. Hela Apparel Holdings operates four design centres in Sri Lanka, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. The company have eleven manufacturing plants, seven in Sri Lanka, and two each in Ethiopia and Kenya. The company is one constituent of the S&P Sri Lanka 20 Index since June 2022.
