ICTA Board strengthened further by leading tech personalities

The director-board at Sri Lanka’s Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) has been further strengthened with the appointment of three more directors, ICTA sources said.

With these latest appointments, the ICTA board has expanded its ranks of industry leaders, technology entrepreneurs, academics and public sector technologists to steer digital Sri Lanka.

The new appointments are leading Sri Lankan tech personalities and include Virtusa Executive Vice President, CIO and General Manager Madu Ratnayake, Orange Electric Managing Director Kushan Kodituwakku and Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka Director General Oshada Senanayake.

As the Group CIO and the Center Head for Virtusa Sri Lanka, Mr. Ratnayake is responsible for Virtusa’s global digital strategy and Virtusa’s Sri Lankan operations. Virtusa is a US publicly-traded global information technology (IT) services company.
He is an independent non-executive Director of the National Bank (HNB) and Director of Sri Lanka CERT, the National Agency for Cyber Security. 

Kushan Kodituwakku is the Managing Director of Orange Electric (Orel Corporation), a Sri Lankan market leader and the largest manufacturer of electrical wiring accessories, exporting to over 25 countries with regional offices in Australia, Singapore, India, Dubai, UK and the USA.

Oshada Senanayake is the Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRC) and is a board member of SLCERT, Sri Lanka’s apex body for Cyber Security.

The ICTA board now consists of Co-Founder of IFS Sri Lanka Jayantha De Silva (ICTA board Chairman); former SLASSCOM Chairman and 99X Technology CEO Mano Sekaram; Prof. Lalith Gamage, CEO of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), one of the country’s most successful public-private partnerships; Virtusa’s Madu Ratnayake, Orange Electric’s Kushan Kodituwakku, TRC’s Oshada Senanayake, former ICTA CEO Reshan Dewapura and former Digital Ministry Secretary and ICTA Programme Director Wasantha Deshapriya. (Bandula)