Asanga is currently the Marketing Director for Home Care & Foods at Unilever. Previously he was the Customer Development Director.
 
Asanga has joined Unilever as a Management Trainee in 1993 having graduated from University of Colombo with an honours degree in Chemistry.  At Unilever, he has held many leadership positions in Research & Development, Manufacturing and Supply Chain before being expatriated to Hindustan Unilever in India in 2002.  At Hindustan Unilever (HUL), he worked as the South Asia Regional Coordinator for Innovation and Supply Chain. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2004 as the Customer Development Director and moved to Marketing from 2009.  
 
Asanga hold an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka.  He is also a Chartered Marketer having got his Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.

 Currently Asanga is a member of the Regional Board of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Sri Lanka Region functioning as the Head of Corporate Integration & Market Interest Groups – an honorary position.