Dr. Nirmal De Silva
Chairperson (Sri Lanka)
Director/CEO, Paramount Realty
Dr. Nirmal De Silva
With a broad-based knowledge of the Real Estate industry, Dr. Nirmal De Silva is a business professional with over 15 years of senior management experience. He was instrumental in setting up operations for Regus PLC, the world’s largest flexible workspace provider in Sri Lanka. Dr. De Silva recently started his new venture Paramount Realty and is serving as the Director/CEO of the company. His success is built by his outstanding results and experience by working for a number of Multi National and Fortune 500 companies. Not only is he a well-respected thought leader in his area of expertise, he is also a much sought after Strategy Consultant & Start up Mentor
Stephanie Balendra
Director, Homes N Spaces Lanka Properties (pvt) Ltd.
Stephanie Balendra
Stephanie Balendra has worked in the UK in Fund Management, Insurance and Financial services for over 25 years. Stephanie’s extensive experience in the financial sector gives her an unique insight into the financial aspects of banking, development and investment. This includes working within a highly regulated and audited environment, following due
diligence and KYC procedures, strict frameworks and timelines, customer confidentiality and ethics. Stephanie moved to Sri-Lanka and identified the changing landscape in the Real Estate sector and the requirement for a well-regulated and managed corporate entity within it. With this in mind she Co-founded SB Realtors (Private) Limited and HomesNSpaces (Private) Limited. She believes in leveraging her experience to ensure that each client receives the highest quality advice in Real Estate investment and ensuring that the related customer experience is a rewarding and memorable one.
Emeritus Prof. Chitra Weddikkara
Managing Director, QServe Pte Ltd.
Emeritus Prof. Chitra Weddikkara
Prof. Chitra Weddikkara’s contribution to the construction sector is remarkable and counts well over 40 years of experience in the design and the construction industry both in Sri Lanka and abroad. Her professional experience encompasses fields of Architecture, Quantity surveying, International construction Management Dispute resolution, Construction auditing, Loop hole Engineering, Risk management, Value Management, Project management and Claims Preparation & Management as well as works as an Arbitrator, Adjudicator and also a member of National Procurement Commission. Apart from the academic & professional expertise, Prof. Weddikkiara is the President of Women In-Construction Forum Sri Lanka Chapter, to discuss issues relating to women in construction sector in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, giving them education, networking, leadership training, public service for women.
Roshan Madawela
Founding Director / CEO, RIU Real-Estate Intelligence Unit
Roshan Madawela
Roshan Madawela is the founding Director of the RIU with its offices in London, Colombo and the Maldives. In Advisory and Consulting, Roshan has headed many research teams, authored many dozens of international publications and produced multifarious Country reports for emerging and developed markets, specializing in real estate related investments. He has also served as Consultant, Macro-Economics at the Asian Development Bank, consultant to the World Bank, Sri Lankan Government Ministries and several international major banks. He is also a Director and Chief Editor of the Big Issue Sri Lanka magazine and a founding Director of the Real-estate Intelligence Unit. Formally he was a consultant at the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Consultant at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and Editor at Pennwell Corporation in the UK.
Natalie Pendigrast
Founder/Director ,Pendi PVT Ltd
Natalie Pendigrast
Natalie’s career began at MICDA, a leading architectural practice in Colombo, in 2005. On completion of her time there as a Junior Interior Designer, she left to spend time working and travelling in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Natalie re-joined MICDA in 2011 as the Head of Interior Design where, she led a young team on a number of diverse projects. In 2016, Natalie set up her own company, Pendi, a design based consultancy specializing in interior design and homeware, produced in collaboration with a group of young artists and designers, proudly made in Sri Lanka. As with the interiors, #pendihome stands true to Natalie’s belief of individuality.
Nilesh De Silva
Chartered Architect | Director, Kahawita De Silva & Associates Pvt Ltd (Kds)
Nilesh De Silva
He is an Associate member of the Sri Lankan Institute of Architects as well as the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) having graduated and worked in the UK. He is the Chartered Architect (Principle Design Architect) and Director of Kahawita De Silva & Associates (Pvt) Ltd, which is a leading design firm providing consortium services not limited to Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Interior Design, Quantity Surveying and Project Management. The firm is on a legacy of three generations and been in the design industry for more than 40 years. He has an array of experience having worked in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Maldives, Norway and Sri Lanka. The firm is a proud recipient of numerous awards over the decades of successful practice.
William Vincent Asoka Tilakawardane
Fellow of the Institute of Project Managers (Sri Lanka)
William Vincent Asoka Tilakawardane
W, V.A. Tilakawardane is an experienced self-motivated Project Management Professional who is a Fellow of the Institute of Project Managers Sri Lanka [FIPMSL], also holding academic qualifications both in Engineering and Project Management. He also has significant experience in Civil Engineering and Building Construction Projects in Sri-Lanka and abroad both as part of an organization in Directorial, Senior Technical and Management Executive positions and as an entrepreneur. He also has significant experience in the specification and monitoring installation of durability enhancement products for concrete in concrete structures exposed to aggressive environments.
Nandike D. Samaranayake
Chartered Architect , AIA (SL)
Nandike D. Samaranayake
Having Studied at Royal College Colombo 07, Nandike pursued education in Architecture at City School of Architecture, obtaining his Charter from the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects in 2005. His experience working under Murad Ismail includes among many other projects, Water’s Edge Golf Course and Club, the Four Seasons Resort at Landaa Giraavaru, Maldives, and Local Architectural Consultancy for Shangri La on Galle Face and Hambanthota.
He founded ACS Integrated in January 2008 as a partnership with the practice becoming Limited Liability in 2012. To date, the Company has completed prestigious projects such as the Marriott at Weligama Bay, and are currently working on Destiny Towers and Mall, NIIBS University Complex among many other projects, and the highly innovative M2M Verandah Offices in collaboration with the World renowned architects MVRDV of Netherlands.
