Mr Diyath Ariyaratne

Diyath Ariyaratne is the General Manager and Company Director at Pearson Lanka. He is a purpose driven, senior leader with software engineering roots, carrying over two decades of experience in the Global IT Consulting and Software Product Development industry while serving global brands such as Virtusa and Pearson. He bears overall accountability for driving the strategic direction of the World’s Leading Learning Company – Pearson’s Sri Lanka Technology Development Center in alignment with the Pearson Global Vision. He is also an Agile Evangelist with over 18 years of experience in leading enterprise grade Agile and traditional PMO teams, practices, delivery processes and rigor servicing clients in US, UK and the Middle East. He is a past student of Nalanda College Colombo and has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Mississippi State University USA. Diyath is a Board Member of Diversity Collective Lanka (DCLK) a not-for-profit organisation focused on accelerating the gender diversity agenda within the ICT sector of Sri Lanka and currently a General Council Member of SLASSCOM.