Full Name
Dharshini Sheamalee Wickramasingha Weerasekera
Job Title
Group Managing Director
Company
CBL Group
Speaker Bio
Shea Wickramasingha is the Group Managing Director of CBL Group. CBL Group has manufacturing operations in confectionery, cereals, Soya, coconuts, and fruits and has strong market leadership in Sri Lanka in several categories with its brands such as Munchee, Ritzbury, Revello, Lanka Soy Samaposha and Sera. The Group has two manufacturing plants in Bangladesh and Ghana and export their range of products to over 55 countries. CBL Group is also the Sri Lankan Partner for SPAR International and operate supermarkets in Sri Lanka under license.

Shea joined Ceylon Biscuits Limited in 1991 as a Food Technologist and worked in various capacities in the Company and Group and joined the Board in 1996. She is also a board member of Modern Pack Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., JF&I Packaging (Pvt) Limited and Food Revolution (Pvt) Ltd.

Presently she is a member of the main committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce since 2013, the Export Development Board Sri Lanka Advisory Committee on Processed Food and Beverages, the Board of United States- Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, UNICEF Business Council in Sri Lanka and an alternate member of the Sun Movement Executive Committee.

She has a MSc degree in Food Chemistry from Purdue University USA and a BSc in Food Science & Industry from Kansas State University, USA.

She has an interest in Functional and Healing properties of Food.
Dharshini Sheamalee Wickramasingha Weerasekera