Financial Times

ICTA bids farewell to its first CEO

Manju Haththotuwa, one of ICTA’s original Board Directors and founder Managing Director who started the ICT Agency (ICTA) and the renowned ‘eSri Lanka’ initiative for the government three years ago, last week informed the Board of Directors of his intentions to resign with effect from July 31 and move on to new challenges.

The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka was set up 3 years ago as the apex Agency for ICT policy and direction giving in the country. ICTA is also the implementing Agency for the eSri Lanka programme.

In a statement, the agency said it has survived two major political changes and grown from strength to strength under the able leadership of the founder Managing Director / CEO Manju Haththotuwa. It is now under the President.

Professor V. K. Samaranayake – Chairman ICTA noted that ICTA is well into the implementation of several national scale projects across all the programmes and stated that “Manju has been the driving force and was primarily responsible for building the Agency from scratch, putting together a fine team, convincing the World Bank to fund the ‘eSri Lanka programme’ and bringing the funding to Sri Lanka.”

Whilst thanking the CEO for his unstinted commitment, tireless efforts and excellent service to ICTA and eSri Lanka, “I would like also to take this opportunity to wish him well in all his future endeavors”, Samaranayake was quoted as saying at a farewell for the outgoing CEO.

Haththotuwa is a Chartered Professional Engineer, with a B.Sc. (Hons.) from Imperial College and also holds a MBA with distinction from the Management School, University of London.

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