Kalhara Hapuarachchi
Kalhara Hapuarachchi is the Founder of Knines Group – an Investment & venture capital group based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, that incubates and invests in breakthrough companies in, on demand economy, e-commerce, mobile and enterprise software, sharing economy, tourism, services, manufacturing and trading. He believes that Diversification is the key to success.
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h his professional career, Kalhara is now the Founder & CEO of Washapp, redefining the future of the on-demand digital ecosystem.
KH is also the Chief Admin Officer and Board Director of Eu-Retec, a leading manufacturing firm in Sri Lanka who produces new and remoulded solid tires, rubber tracks and Inner/Bogie wheels, with German investor Continental AG as its joint venture partner, the No.01 tire manufacturer in Europe and 04th in the world.
In addition to those leading positions, KH is also a Group Director of SPA Group of companies. The group has business interests in Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Germany, The United States, Italy and France. SPA is into Corrugated and Poly Packaging (KSPA Packaging), Manufacturing of Garment hangers and accessories (KSPA Accessories), Manufacturing of Industrial tires (Eu-Retec), Hydro Power Generation (Eagle Power), Recycling of waste materials (Recyplas-UK) and trading of heavy machinery.
Prior to current lead roles, Kalhara was a Credit Analyst at Seylan Bank PLC, Sri Lanka, where he spent six years in various Bank Operational and marketing roles. Kalhara completed his studies in Business Administration from NCC Education University, Manchester, UK parallel to his Business management studies at Informatics University, Singapore.
He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma, The Social+Capital Founder Chamath Palihapitiya and Anurath Abeyratne, a renowned entrepreneur in Sri Lanka, as his inspirations. Outside of being a serial entrepreneur, he enjoys music, traveling and Landscape photography.
Gender: Male
Born: September 18, 1984
URL: www.washapp.lk
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