Top industry professional Jayantha de Silva has been appointed to the Board of Diesel and Motor Engineering Plc as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Jayantha de Silva is the Chairman of ICT Agency (ICTA) and has over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry with extensive exposure in national policy making and strategies for knowledge services with hands-on experience in large projects globally.

He is a founder member and former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM), and former Chairman of Software Exporters Association. He served as a Board Director of the ICTA, Chairman of British Computer Society Sri Lanka and member of the Board of the University of Colombo School of Computing.

He was in the advising panel to the Government of Sri Lanka in the formulation of national level policies related to the ICT industry.

He holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the International Statistical Programs Centre, Washington DC; a Fellow (FBCS) of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP). He was the recipient of the ICT Lifetime Achievers Award/Most Outstanding Contribution Award for services to the software industry in Sri Lanka awarded at the National Best Quality Software Awards in 2011.