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Shantha Fernando

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Chief Marketing Officer at airtel
📍 Sri Lanka

Shantha Fernando is a strategic marketing leader with over two decades of experience across the FMCG, technology, and telecommunications sectors. As Chief Marketing Officer at Airtel, he leverages expertise gained from senior roles at Samsung, The Coca-Cola Company, and Unilever. He holds an MBA from the University of Wales.

His career is distinguished by leading the marketing and business units for a series of major multinational corporations—Unilever, Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Airtel—specifically within the Sri Lankan market.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Chief Marketing Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Sri Lanka
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Marketing Personalisation
Participated in a recent roundtable on how Sri Lankan brands are using data and technology to evolve towards real-time, personalised customer experiences.
Strategic Partnerships
Actively forges key collaborations, such as providing exclusive enterprise solutions to the Government Medical Officers’ Association and partnering with the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM).
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Career

Work history

6-2022
Chief Marketing Officer
airtel
3-2018 - 1-2021
General Manager - Head of Mobile Business
Samsung Electronics
3-2012 - 2-2018
Country Marketing Manager
The Coca-Cola Company
7-2011 - 2-2012
Category Brand Manager - House Hold Cleaning
Unilever
1-2009 - 7-2011
Brand Manager - Face Care
Unilever
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Education
2006 - 2008
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of Wales
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