Amitha Amarasinghe

Co-founder / Chief Executive Officer - APIDM

A Digital Marketing professional with over 15 years of experience, Amitha is one of the earliest adopters to the digital transformation wave in the profession of marketing. He is one of the most experienced digital strategists in Sri Lanka, and spearheaded digital strategy for some leading local and multinational brands.

He started his career in digital marketing in 2004, at a time when the topic of digital marketing wasn't mainstream among the marketing fraternity in Sri Lanka. He joined a Colombo-based online travel agency (Roomsnet.com), catering to European travelers, as an eCommerce executive and held the position of eCommerce manager when he finished his six-year tenure with the company.

In 2010, Amitha joined the global advertising giant Ogilvy as the head of Neo@Ogilvy, a new business unit specializing in digital advertising. Under his leadership, Neo@Ogilvy grew into being the pioneering digital agency in Sri Lanka serving many local and multinational companies. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura on the subject of Digital Marketing, and he is the lead trainer at the Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Marketing (APIDM). He has addressed many forums in Digital Marketing and technology field held in Colombo, Mumbai, and Cambodia. Amitha obtained his bachelor's degree in Marketing from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the Postgraduate Institute of Management at the same university.

Udara Dharmasena

VP – Client Success, Facebook ASP - Roar Global

An enthusiastic digital marketing professional based in Sri Lanka, Udara Dharmasena is currently working for Facebook ASP at Roar Global as the VP - Client Success and is also a lecturer at Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Marketing (APIDM). A strategic thinker and a marketer in lieu with all the modern global trends, Udara has played a significant role in conceptualizing, planning and implementing digital marketing strategies for reputed brands across Sri Lanka.

A Post Graduate Diploma holder in Marketing from SLIM, Udara is known for his ability to think out of the box and generate ideas that give real results. He is well known as an individual who likes to keep abreast with all the new digital marketing news and trends as well as share it with those to whom it matters the most.

With plenty of prior experience working in non-government organizations sector, Udara has played an undeniably important role in the Mobile for Development (Mobile4D) Projects implemented by Sarvodaya-Fusion in bringing Smartphone technologies to rural parts of Sri Lanka.

He also went on to win the Cannes Young Lions competition (2017) in Cyber Category in Sri Lanka along with his team member and they competed at the global competition in Cannes, France.

A dedicated and committed individual, Udara’s specialty relies in Paid media and he is an active digital marketing trainer.

Chandranath Gamage

Assistant Manager - Digital - Ogilvy Digital

Having worked for a good number of both local and global brands in banking, FMCG, insurance, Education and healthcare industries in terms of digital media planning / buying and strategy, Chandranath Gamage is currently heading the paid media team at Ogilvy Digital.

Following his graduation from University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJP) with a Bsc. Marketing (Special) degree, he then became a certified digital marketer with reputed professional qualifications. He has been serving the industry for 6+ years as a digital marketer and has tried out reaching new horizons in everything he undertook, making sure the maximum return is grabbed from the investment done.

He is currently serving as a visiting lecturer at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura for Digital Marketing and has participated in several events and knowledge forums as a trainer and a resource person.

Imesha Ruwan Pathirana

Team Lead - Digital Marketing and Communications - Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC

Imesha is an experienced digital media professional with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry for more than 5 years. Currently, she is working as an Assistant Manager - Digital Media at Mindshare global providing strategic guidance to many local and global brands in many industries including FMCG, Automobile, Healthcare, Education sector, Banking, and Finance and E-commerce. Skilled in media planning and buying, crafting strategy, content, and marketing communication with a Bachelor of Business Management degree specialized in Marketing from University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. She is currently reading her MBA at Postgraduate Institute of Management at University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Her journey started as a blogger/writer and a lecturer. But she started her digital marketing journey at Ogilvy Digital Sri Lanka. She also works as a visiting lecturer at many universities and works as an external quality assurer for City and Guilds. Her contribution to various corporate training programs such as Suhuruliya, empowering women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and many other helped to enhance the digital marketing knowledge of professionals.