Romesh Ranawana

Dr. Ranawana brings a wealth of experience and expertise in the field of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, having worked in multiple industries. Dr. Ranawana was a Co-founder, CTO and Managing Director of SimCentric Technologies (Pvt) Ltd and thereafter founded and functioned as the CTO of Tengri UAV. After exits from these companies, he founded Enterprise Machine Learning (Pvt) Ltd, a consultancy firm advising several multi-national organisations on their AI transformation.

Over the last year in his role as a consultant, Dr. Ranawana assisted Dialog and Axiata in the scaling of Analytics and AI across the Group and played a pivotal role in the AI Factory programme.

Dr. Ranawana holds a DPhil in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Oxford and a 1st Class Honors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Peradeniya.

In his capacity as the Group Chief Analytics and AI Officer, Dr. Ranawana will provide leadership to all Analytics and AI initiatives across the Dialog Group.