Minodh de Sylva won the prestigious Young Achiever Award, presented to those with significant achievements under the age of 35 years at the recently concluded Marketing Excellence Awards at the Taj Lands End Hotel, Mumbai – India.
Having started his career at a very young age, Minodh has had the privilege of holding many management & Senior Management roles in marketing across diverse industries from FMCG (Elephant House), Insurance (Ceylinco Life), Banking (Nations Trust Bank), Finance (The Finance Co. PLC) & Retail (Arpico). In a career that has spanned for over 14 years he has provided leadership & headed the marketing function in many leading organizations. In his current role he is attached to Richard Pieris & Co. PLC. Minodh's proven track record has been significantly marked by being one of the youngest members in many senior management teams &in the NBFI sector he was a member of many board sub - committees in Marketing, Integrated Risk Management and Asset & Liabilities. He is also a sought after speaker & visiting lecturer in Branding & Marketing.
He holds the prestige of becoming one of the youngest ‘Chartered Marketers’ in the country at the age of 26 having attained the Chartered status from CIM (UK) in 2007. He was also awarded the status of ‘Practicing Marketer’ (SL) from the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing in 2013 in recognition of his exceptional contributions in branding & marketing.