Prasanna Perera
Prasanna is a much respected and acknowledged ‘Marketing Guru” of Sri
Lanka. He is a Fellow Member and Chartered Marketer of the Chartered
Institute of Marketing, UK, a Fellow Member and Director of the Canadian
Institute of Marketing, a Fellow Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing
and a Member of the Singapore Institute of Management.
He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Post Graduate
Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka, a Post
Graduate Diploma in Finance and Business Administration from the Institute of
Chartered Accountants, Sri Lanka, a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from
the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK and a Graduate Certificate in
Management Research Literature from the University of South Australia.
Prasanna won the “Marketer of the Year” award in 2001.
He has held several Senior Management appointments in Marketing, at Darley
Butler & Company, Singer Sri Lanka Ltd, Hemas Group, John Keells Holdings
and Tetra Pak Sri Lanka, spanning a period of 20 years.
Prasanna is also a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the Sri Lanka Institute of
Marketing and is on the visiting faculty of several Universities and Professional
Institutes, both for Postgraduate and Undergraduate Diploma programmes. His
lecturing experience spans over 25 years and over 20,000 students have been
taught by him.
Further, Prasanna is presently a Senior Marketing Consultant for several
organizations and a much sought after Marketing and Sales Trainer. He has
trained over 300 corporates and over 15,000 persons during the past 25 years.