Harsha Purasinghe selected as Eisenhower Fellow 2014
View(s):Harsha Purasinghe, CEO and Founder of Microimage has been selected as a 2014 Eisenhower Fellow, a prestigious award given annually by the Eisenhower Foundation. Mr. Purasinghe, who was selected from a pool of international applicants, will travel to the US later this month to participate in the 2014 Eisenhower Innovation Programme.
Harsha Purasinghe
On fellowship, he will explore social innovation, entrepreneurship and social enterprises in the US to further his plans to build a platform for social idea incubation/acceleration platform in Sri Lanka, his company said in a media statement. This platform will foster social innovation and entrepreneurship by providing access to mentors, advisory groups, volunteers, financing, technology platforms and other resources. It will be a platform where people collectively bring social ideas to life and give birth to new social enterprises contributing towards overall socio-economic development.
At the age of 19, Mr. Purasinghe founded Microimage, which he developed into a leading technology innovator in Human Capital Management, Media/Broadcast, and Mobile & Digital Convergence. Within a span of two decades, this serial entrepreneur founded a number of technology ventures as well as contributed to building notable products that have won numerous local and international awards. These include Microimage, Microimage Mobile Media, Microimage HCM Asia (a JV with OMESTI Group of Malaysia) and WSO2 Mobile.