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Ranjan De Silva
Chief Executive Officer
Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd.
 
Ranjan is the Chief Executive Officer of Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd., the leading grocery retail chain in Bangladesh since July 2009. He was a director of the food & retail businesses of John Keells Holdings Ltd., Sri Lanka. He was one of the pioneers of the grocery retail business in Sri Lanka as a part of the original team that launched Keells Super in 1992 and later helped start one of the first grocery retail chain in Bangladesh, Agora, managed by Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd., as a consultant in 2001.
 
Ranjan is also an extremely experienced Team Development Specialist, attached to the global consultancy Sensei International, from where he is seconded to Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd., as CEO. His innovative consulting and training style and world class professionalism has been a refreshing, interesting and effective mechanism to enable his clients to obtain the ‘adaptive’ inputs required to achieve strategic business success.
 
Ranjan has an ideal mix of practical and theoretical grounding which makes his input value adding to the clients. His practical experience comes from 28 years of corporate experience, from his time as and two leading Asian conglomerates, and subsequently for various SENSEI INTERNATIONALclients over the last 12 years.
 
He has provided consultancy and training for people at all levels of organisations in Vietnam, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pakistan, Oman, Maldives, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Egypt, Canada, Bangladesh and Bahrain. His multinational clients in these various countries include Unilever, British American Tobacco, DHL, HSBC, Maersk, Nestle, Nokia Siemens Networks, Novartis, HSBC, Holcim, Ranbaxy, Reckitt Benckiser, Singer, Siemens, Sri Lankan Airlines, Toyota and various local companies in these markets.
 
His theoretical grounding is derived from the Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing [CIM] UK, where he received the gold medal for the best results in the world for the Marketing Management [Analysis and Decision] paper at the final examination. His MBA is from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura.
 
He is an accredited trainer in delivering the personal transformation programme, 'Mastery of Self through Neuro Linguistic Programming' and its derivatives.
 
Ranjan is a Fellow and a Chartered Marketer of CIM and a Past Chairman of CIM, Sri Lanka Branch. These roles and his current role at SENSEI have enabled him to network with corporate leaders of top companies. He has also networked with management gurus of the caliber of Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman and Robert Holden, all of whom have spoken at various events organised by Sensei. His mentor, friend and partner, Omar Khan has been a tremendous influence in his development as a world-class Team development specialist.
 
He has shared the stage with Bob Urichuck and co-delivered with him the mega learning experience 'Sales Power'. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, 'Mind Programming for Sales Success' and the new, further enriched edition of the book, 'A Better Way to Sell - Sales Mastery through Self Mastery' published by Pearson Education.
 
 
 
         
 
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