With over 15 years of experience in Strategy Development and Business Consultancy, Janaki Kuruppu is currently the Director – Strategy & Perceptions Management at the Presidential Secretariat directly working under H.E. the President. With over 10 years experience as an entrepreneur, she was the Managing Director of ACNielsen (Lanka) Pvt Ltd, formerly known as ORG-MARG SMART, a company she set up in 1994 which later became part of the multinational research firm The Nielsen Company. In addition to this, her experience includes Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Cargills Group, the leading Food & Beverage and Retail company in the country, as a Board Director of 3 subsidiary companies and a member of the Executive Management Committee of the group for over 3 years. She has also contributed to the marketing fraternity and to marketing education in the country through various forums such as Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM), CIM, Chamber of Commerce and through lecturing at SLIM and the Post Graduate Institute of Management. She was also responsible for the introduction of SLIM Brand Excellence when she was an Executive Council member of SLIM. A holder of a BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a M.A. in Applied Statistics jointly from the University of Colombo and the University of Missouri, USA, she was also awarded the All American Scholar Award and the US Achievement Academy award for outstanding performance in the USA.
