Asith Hettiarachchi

Asith Hettiarachchi

Director, Business Operations

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  • About me

    Entrepreneur, Business Executive and Public Policy Enthusiast

  • Education

    • Sri Lanka Professional Advertising and Creativity School

      2009 - 2010
      Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
    • Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM).

      2009 - 2010
      Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General
    • Chartered Institute of Marketing

      2009 - 2015
      Professional diploma in Marketing Marketing/Marketing Management, General
    • Ananda College

      1996 - 2010

      Activities and Societies: Member of Ananda College Broadcasting Unit (2001-2009) Member of Ananda College Information & Communication Technology Society (2001-2009) Member of the International Olympiad for Informatics (IOI) Sri Lanka Squad (2008) GCE Advanced Level (2010) in Mathematics StreamGCE Ordinary Level (2006)

    • Founder Institute

      2022 - 2023
      FI Core Program Sri Lanka - South Asia 2022
    • Staffordshire University

      2011 - 2014
      Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business Information Technology
  • Experience

    • YA LABZ

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2015
      Director, Business Operations

      YA LABZ, a local business partnership, started its journey as a creative solutions provider, giving its clients services from graphic designing to web, content and event management. YA LABZ was made redundant, and Jigsaw Ensemble (Private) Limited acquired its portfolio in 2015.

    • OGO Transit

      Nov 2014 - now
      Founder

      OGO Transit, a limited liability company, took an interest in fare collection in public transit to make Sri Lanka South Asia’s first country to implement a truly Smart Public Transport Solution developed to world-class standards locally. Its vision is to create a Private Public Partnership (OGO Transit) for automated fare collection for the Sri Lankan public transit sector.

    • Jigsaw Ensemble

      Jan 2015 - now
      Co-Founder

      Jigsaw Ensemble, a limited liability company, is a local business converted into a limited liability company in 2015. The company provided various boutique digital services and was able to scale from 03 to a 40+ member team by the end of 2018. Multiple restructuring phases due to the economic repercussions of the political instabilities in 2018 and the Easter Attacks in 2019 made us run the operations as lean as possible and sustain us during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the function is entirely virtual, with 30+ resources servicing local and foreign clientele ranging from start-ups to multi-national organisations delivering services in digital marketing, content creation and design and build projects for IT products. Show less

    • OGO Pay

      Jan 2018 - now
      Co-Founder

      OGO Pay, a limited liability company, started exploring payment technology in 2016, aiming to overcome the challenges around money logistics in the transit space and general trade retail. We made our first successful transaction in October 2018. Since then, OGO Pay has facilitated the processing of payment cards while providing the ability to store payment card details for recurring payments. Our minimum viable product (MVP) has been operating since October 2018 without any fraudulent transactions. We wish to raise funds to achieve PCI-DSS compliance to scale exponentially with multiple B2B applications. Show less

    • Lawganizer

      Nov 2019 - now
      Co-Founder

      Lawganizer, a limited liability company, focuses on digitising the diary of legal professionals using mobile/web apps and various integrations. Currently in the process of launching the minimum viable product (MVP) for Sri Lanka and other Commonwealth member countries.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Seed Spark

      Stanford Seed
      Nov 2023
    • Scrum: The Basics

      LinkedIn
      May 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • Sun Certified Java Programmer - JDK 1.4

      Sun Microsystems
      Jan 2006