Exactpro has appointed Jagath De Silva as CEO of its new subsidiary in Sri Lanka.
De Silva’s appointment follows the announcement of Exactpro’s expansion into Sri Lanka in July.
Silva will be responsible for strengthening support for global clients, including major exchanges and firms in the UK and US, as well as harnessing the potential of the wider market.
He has more than two decades of fintech and delivery experience, having previously held a number of senior executive and technological engineering roles.
Before Exactpro, Silva served at Virtusa Corporation for more than 20 years. He was a founding member of its quality assurance practice, and also held the position of head of Sri Lanka software quality engineering, where he led a team of more than 800 software quality engineers.
He was most recently head of the global tech factory, an extended engineering arm of its global technology office.
Silva sits on the advisory committees of both the Sri Lanka Association for Software Services Companies Technology Forum and Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Business School.
Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-founder of Exactpro, comments: “We’re thrilled to welcome Jagath to the expanding global Exactpro team. Jagath will be able to utilise his impressive industry and leadership experience to spearhead Exactpro’s new delivery centre in Sri Lanka to the benefit of our international clients and the local business community.”
Commenting on his appointment, Silva says: “As the financial sector undergoes further transformation and faces new challenges, ensuring system quality has become a boardroom issue, and Exactpro is well placed to meet this challenge being the industry leader in testing services in the global financial market.”
