Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, Dialog Axiata PLC, announced the succession of Supun Weerasinghe, as its Group Chief Executive.

Dialog Axiata has informed the stock exchange that the board of directors of the company approved the appointment of Mr.Weerasinghe as an executive director of the Company. 

Mr.Weerasinghe took over from Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya who led the Company since 1997. 

Dr.Hans Wijayasuriya will remain closely associated with Dialog Axiata in his capacity as the Regional Chief Executive Officer for the South Asia Region (spanning subsidiary operations and investment interests in Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) of the Axiata Group.

Prior to his new appointment, Mr.Weerasinghe was the CEO and Managing Director of Robi Axiata Limited in Bangladesh from 2014 to 2016.

He is a fellow member of CIMA UK and holds an MBA from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and is an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard Business School.

The Axiata Group has been a committed investor in Sri Lanka since 1995 and has been recognised as the single largest Foreign Direct Investor in the country by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka.