Buddhi Weerasinghe Buddhi has 20 years of strategic marketing, management & business development experience working for international companies in Europe, US and Asia. This experience ranges from corporate client acquisitions, leading large teams that supply of merchandise to global brands, providing leadership on internal ethical sourcing action plans, building stakeholder engagement between supply partners across Asia and retail partners in US and Europe. He is currently a Director- Business Development of Wünsche UK of Wünsche Group Germany. Prior to joining Wünsche Group in 2015, Buddhi was the Director – Business Development and Marketing at Elusion Group which is a manufacturing and supplier partner to UK fashion brands. During 2005-2010 Buddhi worked for DZ Group which is British-American JV that provide design-to-delivery solutions for UK and US based fashion brands. As a management consultant, Buddhi has helped many young entrepreneurs and starts ups in the area of brand consultancy, tourism, consumer electronics, hospitality both in the UK and Sri Lanka and has been non-executive director for several companies. Buddhi also co-founded GDC Education and Human Capital Ltd and been working as Director Strategy /Consultant since 2012. Prior to migrating to UK Buddhi co-founded Sri Lanka branches of two international firms. In 2003, Buddhi was tasked to set-up and manage Cyber Merchants Exchange, Inc Sri Lanka and Nepal Branch and was appointed as Director/Country Manager. Before that, in 1999, Buddhi set-up the branch office for Brilliant Labels Mfg. Limited (a Hong Kong based apparel brand labels manufacturer) and was appointed as Director/Country Manager role. During 1999-2005, Buddhi managed a number of trade promotion project in collaboration with the Export Development Board of Sri Lanka, American Chamber of Commerce, SL Embassy in Washington DC, which in-turn resulted increase of garments exports to US. Buddhi is also a Project Development and Management Expert with 12 years of senior level experience who has a proven track record of designing, managing and delivering national level programs on capacity development, Education and training, youth empowerment and community health. Buddhi had been a key team player on a National research project on Reproductive Health jointly conducted by United Nation’s Populations Fund and Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka in 1996. During 1994-1996 Buddhi worked for Community Front for Prevention of Aids and managed number of programs at National and Regional levels for youth in Sri Lanka as the Secretary -Guidance & Counselling and National Audit Secretory of Sri Lanka federation of Youth Clubs and National Youth Service Council in Sri Lanka Buddhi received a Diploma in Service Marketing from NIBM Sri Lanka and his MBA from Lincoln University College. Buddhi also studied for Diploma in International Relations at Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. He is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Marketing UK and Chartered Management Institute UK and was admitted as Chartered Marketer by CIM in 2012. He is a member of several learned societies both in the UK and Sri Lanka including Political Studies Association UK. He has served as a Trustee of number of Charities in the UK and has been a school governor over 4 years.