Mahesh Amalean

Deshamanya
Mahesh Amalean
Born (1955-04-04) 4 April 1955 (age 69)
NationalitySri Lankan
Alma materNational Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Royal College Colombo
OccupationChairman of MAS Holdings
Years active1978 - present
EmployerMAS Holdings
AwardsDeshamanya

Deshamanya Mahesh Amalean (born 4 April 1955) is a Sri Lankan engineer and industrialist. He is the current Chairman of MAS Holdings.[1]

Early life and education

Amalean was born to parents with Gujarati ancestry,. his father was in the family textile business.[2] He studied at Royal College Colombo and graduated from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli) with a BTech degree in chemical engineering.[3]

Career

Returning to Sri Lanka in 1978 Amalean took up the family businesses. Thereafter he started a manufacturing company with his brothers named Sigma Industries which began operations in Ratmalana, in August 1985.[citation needed] Moving into the apparel industry he founded MAS Holdings which is a leader in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka catering to major brands such as Victoria’s Secret. For his contribution to Sri Lankan industry in 2005 he was conferred with the title of Deshamanya by the government of Sri Lanka.[4]

In 2011, The Open University of Sri Lanka conferred an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) to Mahesh in recognition of his contribution to the country.[citation needed]

Amalean is also one of the five global business leaders recognised with a UN Award at the WEP’s inaugural Leadership Awards presentation where he received the award for Cultural Change for Empowerment. He is also the recipient of the CNBC-IIFA Global Leadership Award and is ranked amongst the Top 20 Progressive Asian Leaders by the World Business Magazine.[5] In 2017, he won Global Businessman award of Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year.[6]

References

  1. ^ FABRIC OF A STRATEGIST AND A VISIONARY
  2. ^ "'You've got to get out there with an innovative mind'". www.sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  3. ^ "NIT Trichy - DAA Recipients for 2006-07". www.nitt.edu. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. ^ "National Honours". Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Deshamanya Dayalal Mahesh Amalean: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year 2017 - award winners". Adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2 October 2017.