Sandeetha Jayasinghe

 Managing Director

Passionate about people in all forms and shapes. Bonding with Family, Friends, Colleagues, Employees, Clients, Consumers, Shoppers are all important to him.
Weakness: Coffee, Water (specially river, sea & rain) & S….

His diversified experience includes Advertising & Integrated Communication, Retail & Consumer Marketing, Sales & Channel Management, HR & 3P Solutions and Strategic Consultancy

Previously played many roles at JWT, Unilever, Lion & Cargills.
Founder of “The Flying Elephant Pvt Ltd”.

Milestones
• 1 Billion Achievements (Lifebuoy, Signal & USL Modern Trade)
• Taking the Sri Lankan Smile to the World – Signal “Sina Bo Wewa”
• Numerous marketing & advertising Awards won for: Signal, Lifebuoy & Dell
• Island Best results in Marketing (CIM UK)

Yahya Galely

Head of Planning & Digital Solutions

Passionate about speed and wonders of the digital world.
A true millennial and a challenger of status quo.
Weakness: Anything digital that will change the world. Loves
diving head first to the future trends. No matter what, his
foundation is faith and family (Kids, Wife & Parents).
He is great at Strategic Planning and Client Management.
In the past few years has become an expert in Digital Solutions.
Specially, joining the dots between what people need and what
Technology can do.
He has gained invaluable cooperate experience in Advertising,
Marketing and solution driven Project Management. He has
been a dynamo at Mullen LOWE, Cargills, Kist and KFC.

Milestones
• Cannes Lion Young Marketer Finalist
• Launch of Kist Biscuits from Zero

Sachithra Gunarathna

Partner/ Head of Creative

His passion is to develop Great People and Great ideas that will
serve a bigger purpose to society.
Weakness: he cannot help, being kind and caring to his team,
puppies and specially his wife. Therefore, always giving and
making many meaningful connections with friends from all
walks of life.
He is a rare Creative leader in today’s advertising world with a
following built up naturally. Caring for people and translating it
in to clients and consumers. His creative skills are
multifaceted and easily one of the best in the industry. He is
moved by Creative Art, Copy, jingles, Films, Ads and amazingly
can do it all himself. Simply One Stop and don’t shop.
Sachi has got experience locally and globally. His past transits
has been at TBWA, Ogilvy Outreach & Redifusion Y&R.

Milestones
• Won Gold at Midas International Advertising Awards
• Won Gold & Silver at Kinsale Shark
International Advertising Awards

Thushani Gunarathne

HR Manager Cum Finance Executive

Thushani has embraced her passion for people fully. Even
though she started in the money business (a graduate with a
Finance & Management Degree) and husband is dealing in
money (banker) she truly cares about people and tries to be
there in good times and bad. She cares for Liya (daughter)
whilst she is greatly and extremely pious.
Weakness: Smiles and loud giggles. Thushani is always with a
great smile, which helps her connect with many, whilst having
a strong empathy towards others.
Thushani is what you would call a smiling assassin. Simply
because she is ambitious, goal oriented, accountable and
delivers on all expectations with minimum mistakes. She’s got
a great eye for detail and multi-talented. She plays a dual role
as HR Manager and part of the Finance team. She is
experienced in Finance at Richard Pieris Distributors LTD,
Brandix Mercury Asia, City Finance Corporation for 4 years and
has 5 years’ experience at “The Flying Elephant”. In the last 2
years she has evolved in to the Human Resource function and
takes care of all people at the Agency and “The Flying
Elephant”. Currently, pursuing a HR degree at CIPM.

Milestones
• Moving in to the HR function whilst handling
finance responsibility for 3 Clients

Ruwanga Tharuka

Head of Finance

Experience:

• Ernst & Young.
• Ernst & Young (Doha).
• Laughs Leisure.
• Accountant – United Jobs Pvt Ltd.
• Graduate of Accounting Special (University ofbSri Jayewardenepura).
• Currently, pursuing CA Sri Lanka (Finalist) and ACCA (Final).

Milestones
• Moving in to the HR function whilst handling
finance responsibility for 3 Clients

Asiri Jayasinghe

Activation & Production Executive

Even though from humble beginnings and from Kurunegala,
Asiri’s passion is in entertainment. He sees every tree, beach
or floor as an opportunity to be explored and has done it many
a times.
Weakness: His power and weakness both comes from his
entrepreneurial spirit. Bubbling with many ideas and plots,
his mind is a constant dynamo. Always excited to be part of a
challenging new project and explore the possibilities.
He looks at life practically and approaches all tasks with a plan
in mind. Event Management, Activation, Music, Promotions
and DJing is all part of his forte. In the past, he has individually
organised many events and festivals. Has got a vast experience
with many Clients such as Gillette, Elephant House, Caltex &
Unilever Pureit. Previously, he has worked at Apex Lanka,
ODEL PLC and The Weekend Sri Lanka and has completed a
Certificate Course in Media Management offered by North
Western Media Council. Asiri has been a team player of the
Agency for the last 4 years.

Milestones
• Unilever Pureit Activation
• Arugambay Music Festival

Melan Hettiacrachchi

Graphic Designer

He is passionate about creative Graphic Design and paying
closest attention to detail. Which he uses in Graphic Design
and Studio Solutions whilst using this unfair advantage in his
wife’s cake business and looking after his 2 young kids.
Weakness: His surface weakness is speed. He wants to do a lot
of work whilst being productive and hates being idle. Most
dangerously he rides his bike as a “Street Hawk” using speed
as his great companion.
Melan aspires towards a career in Art Direction to take his
experience a notch up. Melan already has 11 years’ experience
in Graphic Design with expertise in pre-planning in Printing.
His previous work places include Anim8 (Pvt) Ltd, Leaf D (Pvt)
Ltd, Signtech (Pvt) Ltd and JAS Active (Pvt) Ltd. He is also a
great team player and the silent operator with a mystery.

Milestones
• Single handed Graphic Design work for National Lotteries Board
• A t-shirt designer for the brands LCY, Coco Club and Origin

Dilum Munasinghe

Activation & Production Executiver

Dilum’s passionate about taking up challenges with short
deadlines and small budgets. He loves negotiating with
vendors and achieving the best value for the company or
Client. Pretends not to worry about home and family, but will
run home to his 2 kids and wife with a tiny sniff of trouble.
Weakness: His brain is wired with the “SAVE” chip. Whether for
family or company is always trying to achieve best value for
money and cares about timely delivery.
Naturally a hard worker committed to the given project at
hand. Multi skilled and multi-tasking has been a great
advantage in all ground level executions, Activation and
Events. When the company people need something or anything
Dilum is the “go to person”. With long 20 years’ experience in
foreign employment at Gulf Lanka Travels (Pvt) Ltd, Cecos
Travels & Management and Hamad International (Pvt) Ltd,
Dilum has adjusted well with great flexibility in to the Agency in
the last 4 years with all his Administration skills, he has also
become a logistics expert.

Milestones
• 20 years’ experience in foreign employment