Judges

Taffy Alahakoon carries 20 years of experience in marketing, sales management and leading teams in diverse sectors – FMCG, Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Interior/Office plans & designs, Banking, Luxury Vertical Living and Outdoor Camping & Travel, International Marketing. Starting off with John Keells at Jaykey marketing handling brands, he has lead marketing teams subsequently at Standard Chartered and served as a Group Director/CMO at Fairway Holdings, where he helped them to build corporate branding and launch several projects. He also served as the CEO of one of Fairway Group’s subsidiaries, Go Outdoors, which brings a novel outdoor adventure concept to Sri Lanka.

He is the Director Business Planning & Growth at Brentcross Capital Partners, an investment facilitator & consultancy, working in housing, aviation, infrastructure, renewable power and healthcare with its main focus in Sri Lanka, Maldives and Australia.