Career
He is a key stakeholder in the Information Technology Industry of Sri Lanka and is a founding member and Chairman Emeritus of SLASSCOM. Dinesh has over 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. He is a Human Resources thought leader and speaker and has been a participant for many panel discussions and forums in the fields of SaaS, Human Resources and Information Technology. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Information and communications technology Most Outstanding Contribution award from the British Computer Society Sri Lanka section for his contribution to the development of Information and communications technology in Sri Lanka.
A serial entrepreneur, Dinesh founded more than six companies over the last two decades.
Dinesh has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America. He is an old boy of Doctorate.S. Senanayake College, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He began his career with Aetna Life and Casualty, Connecticut, United States of America.
Where he worked on Enterprise Technology, and served as an Enterprise Technology Consultant. After Aetna he joined Pepsi Cola, in Somers, New York, as a Software Engineer.
