Personal Profile

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Dilshan is an experienced Senior Management Professional and an active proponent of making business more relevant to new consumers and is enthusiastic about the novel opportunities presented by digital technologies. He has over 20 years of experience in Strategic Management, Digital Transformation, Marketing and Brand Management, Sales Management, Digital Marketing, Corporate Communications, New Product Development, Business Development and Customer Relationship Management in Life Insurance, General Insurance, Telecommunications, Banking and Retail Business.

Dilshan is currently functioning as Chief Transformation Officer/General Manager at HNB General Insurance Limited. Dilshan was the Head of InsurTech - Group Digital Services at Dialog Axiata PLC and joined Dialog as the Head of eTailing ( Digital Retail) - Group Marketing. Prior to joining Dialog, he was the Co-Founder of InsureMe.lk ( Sri Lanka's First Insurance Comparison Digital Platform) and Dilshan was the Head of Marketing at HNB Assurance and HNB General Insurance. He also worked in leading companies namely DFCC Bank, Ceylinco Life and Cargills Ceylon holding responsible positions in Marketing and Management and was awarded many local and international awards for Brand Building and Marketing Excellence initiatives.

He graduated from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka with a Bachelor of Business Management (Marketing) special, is a Chartered Marketer, Member and Professional Postgraduate Diploma holder in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing – UK, Member of Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and Member of Institute of Management Sri Lanka and completed his MBA at PIM, University of Sri Jayawardanepura. Dilshan has undergone extensive training both locally and internationally in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Dilshan is an old boy of De Mazenod College,Kandana, Sri Lanka and was awarded as Most Outstanding student in year 2001.

Dilshan also functioning as a visiting lecturer at many high educational institutes in Sri Lanka and conducted many sessions for Master/Postgraduate level students.