Hans Wijayasuriya

Shridhir Sariputta Hansa (‘Hans’) Wijayasuriya (born April 2, 1968), a Sri Lankan telecommunications business executive, is the Group Executive Vice President & CEO Telecommunications Business of the Axiata Group Bhd., Asia’s second largest telecommunications company. Until 2016, he was also the group chief executive of Dialog Axiata PLC,[1] Sri Lanka’s largest mobile communications provider.[2] During the period 2012-14, He was founder CEO of Axiata Digital Services, the pan-region Digital Services arm of the Axiata Group.

Hans Wijayasuriya
Born (1968-04-02) April 2, 1968
Colombo, Sri Lanka
NationalitySri Lankan
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Bristol,
S. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia
OccupationGroup Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer – Telecommunications Business Axiata Group Berhad
Known forDialog Axiata PLC

In June 2016, the GSM Association (the trade group the mobile industry), gave him an award. Hans was also named ‘Sri Lankan of the Year’ in 2008, by a local business journal, LMD.[3]

Early life and education

Born to P. M. W. Wijayasuriya, a former Auditor General of Sri Lanka and Susila Wijayasuriya - a painter, Hans was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1989 with a Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He later obtained his PhD in Digital Mobile Communications from the University of Bristol in 1994. A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology UK, Wijayasuriya also holds an MBA from the University of Warwick UK.

Career

Hans joined Dialog Axiata, the fourth entrant to Sri Lanka’s mobile market as a member of the founding management team in 1994.[4] He became chief executive in 1997.[5] Dialog is today one of Asia’s most advanced Quad Play connectivity and Digital Services providers. Hans went on to become the CEO for South Asia of the Axiata Group in 2016, and in 2020 was named Group Executive Vice President & CEO for Telecommunications Business responsible for the Telecommunications Businesses of the Axiata Group across the markets of Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Hans serves as a director of several Axiata Group Companies in the region and is also the Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and a member of the board of directors of John Keells Holdings PLC.[6]  Hans is a past Chairman of GSM Asia-Pacific – the Regional interest group of the GSM Association, and has been included in the GSM 100 Role of Honour for his contribution to the Asia-Pacific Telecommunication industry.[7] In 2016, the GSM Association named Hans as the first recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to the Asian Mobile Industry” Award. A past Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, Hans has also served on the Boards of the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).

Hans has published on the subject of digital mobile communications (S.S.H Wijayasuriya et al), including research papers in publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) USA, Royal Society and the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) UK.[8] He has also presented papers at several International conferences on digital mobile communications.

References
  1. "Supun Weerasinghe Takes Over as Dialog's Group Chief Executive". www.dialog.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  2. "Group Overview". www.dialog.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  3. "Sri Lanka Business News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers". archives.dailynews.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  4. "Board of Directors". www.dialog.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  5. "BUSINESS TODAY -From Rookie to Veteran: Dr Hans Wijayasuriya clocks 10 years as dialogue Chief". www.businesstoday.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  6. "Hans appointed to JKH board". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  7. "Board of Directors". www.dialog.lk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  8. "IEEE Xplore Search Results". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
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