Who We Are

Mr. Manjula Jayasinghe is a sales, marketing and product management leader with more than 20 years of experience driving business growth, shaping product strategy and building high-performing teams across Sri Lankan and Asia Pacific markets. He is currently part of the leadership team at V S Information Systems (VSIS), a Sri Lankan provider of enterprise technology solutions and services.

He began his career at Informatics (Pvt) Ltd as a Management Trainee in Sales & Marketing, progressing to Product Manager and Assistant General Manager. In 2010 he joined HP Sri Lanka as an Enterprise Account Manager, beginning a career of more than 14 years with HP during which he served as Country Business Manager for Sri Lanka and Category Manager for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Most recently, he was Theater Category Manager for Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) in HP’s Worldwide Category organisation in Singapore, working with cross-functional, multicultural teams across diverse regional markets. He holds a BSc in Physical Sciences and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management from the University of Peradeniya.

Professor H. M. Vijitha R. Herath is a Professor at the University of Peradeniya and a co-founder of Farbe Technologies. He obtained his PhD from the University of Paderborn, Germany (2009). A former Head of Department and Director of the University’s Centre for Engineering Research and Postgraduate Studies, he brings extensive experience in electronic product design, multispectral imaging, remote sensing, computer vision and optical communication.

A Senior Member of IEEE and Optica, has an h-index of 20, has received 2 Presidential Awards for Scientific Research, a 2024 Sahasak Nimavum Silver Award, and the Lady Davis Visiting Professors Fellowship (2023) at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Journal of Food Engineering and Optics Express. He has contributed to 3+ documented major research projects.

Professor Roshan Gabriel Ragel is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Deputy Director for Capacity Development at its Multidisciplinary AI Research Centre, and a consulting CEO of the Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN). He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia (2007). His expertise includes embedded and secure computing, hardware/software acceleration, bioinformatics, wearable and IoT systems, and applied AI.

With 200+ peer-reviewed publications and over 20 years of academic and research leadership and has an h-index of 28. Professor Ragel is an IEEE Senior Member and recipient of 2 Presidential Awards for Scientific Publications. He received the 2025 IEEE Computer Society Mary Kenneth Keller Undergraduate Teaching Award. His work combines technology research with national computing infrastructure, AI education and international collaborations, including 3+ EU-supported research and education initiatives.

Dr. W. K. Tharanga Mahesh Gunarathne is Head of AI Solutions Sales at Farbe Technologies. An academic, technology leader and AI commercialisation strategist with over 13 years of combined experience in higher education and enterprise technology, he holds a PhD in Computer Science and Information Engineering, specialising in Machine Learning and Data Science, from National Central University, Taiwan. He also holds an MBA in Project Management, an MSc in Electronic Business and a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science.

His work focuses on transforming AI research into practical, scalable solutions for industry. He leads AI business development, client engagement, pre-sales and solution design, working with technical teams, universities and R&D partners across machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, computer vision, analytics and intelligent automation. His background also spans academic leadership, research coordination, quality assurance and teaching.