Anoja Basnayake, Director of Information Technology at A. Baur & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, also known as Baurs, was recently featured on the inaugural National CIO List 2023 of Computer Society of Sri Lanka Initiated by the apex professional body for ICT practitioners, Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) for the first time and launching the National CIO list, the event was held on 12 December 2023 at the BMICH, recognizing some of the industry’s leading and renowned personalities.

The role of a CIO is becoming very important and its changing from a supporting role to a strategic role as the digital transformation journey happing across in all industries and the globe. This was reflected in their measurement criteria of evaluation when selecting the national CIO’s

Anoja began her career at Baurs as Manager IT in 2008, having previously worked at blue chips such as Brandix, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Hayleys. She has led many strategic digital transformation initiatives. She played a pivotal role as project director at Baurs overseeing the implementation and migration of SAP S/4 HANA 2020 on cloud deployment with SAP Analytics Cloud Live reporting, making it the first company in Sri Lanka to do so at that time.

Anoja is the Vice President, Professional Development at the Project Management Institute, USA Colombo Chapter and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She is also a Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) and also serves as a member of the Innovation and Technology committee of SLID.

She pursued her professional development studies with the General Management programme at the National University of Singapore and holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science Special from the University of Colombo.