Mini Workshops

Jerryson Doss is a philanthropist, motivational speaker, Entrepreneur and facilitator for various youth empowerment programs nationwide. Since 1997, his work and passion has been revolving charity whereby it involves reintegration of rehabs graduates, homeless, ex-addicts, urban poor and destitute into society thorough employment and skill enhancement. He also has established schools, refugee centres, orphanage and homeless shelter and transit homes of which he owns and has open to this special crowd. Jerryson received several other awards in recognition of his service for marginalised communities including the Star Golden Heart Award, the Top Outstanding Malaysian Award, GIBA Outstanding 10 Malaysian Award. As an entrepreneur, his company Viva Odyssey has won several awards and the most recent being the APICTA Award 2018, Best of Social Entreprise and SME (BOSS 2017), GRANDEUR International Business Award and several other awards over the past 9 years.

He is the founder of Viva Odyssey and Viva Starfish Project and CEO Futurist of Viva Group of Companies and has been involved in operations and social charitable scene since 2009. Via the Viva City Global Group of Companies – Viva Odyssey was given the highly prestigious award which is the (SOBA) STAR OUTSTANDING BUSINESS AWARD 2018 – Best in CSR and personally Jerryson Doss is the recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Award during the SOBA Awards Night.

Niteesh Kumar Upadhyay is an Assistant professor of law at Galgotias University and a Doctoral research candidate in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkota. He also holds an LL.M from NUJS and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Trade Law from The Indian Law Institute and PGDHRL FROM National Law School Bangalore. He has published over 20 research papers in national and international journals and presented papers at numerous conferences.  He is founder of the website www.knowledgesteez.com, which provides invaluable information to law students wishing to publish. Furthermore, he is a Lead Facilitator of Indian Case Laws, a leading website for cases on Corporate and Contract Laws, and a member of the Editorial Board of more than 10 National and International Journal including Westminster law review (United Kingdom) and youth Policy Journal (United Kingdom). He was awarded with Justice Education scholarship to attend CLE TOT at Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia and ILEC New York. He studied Public International law at Hague Academy of International Law at Hague Netherlands and IPR Law from Xiamen University China. He recently delivered workshop at Regensburg University, Germany and Xiamen University on issues related to clinical legal education . He had conducted more than 10 legal research methodology workshops in different national and international universities.

Mangala Perera a top professional with over 20 years extensive cross industry experience in consumer electronics, industrial products, stationary industry, FMCG, commodity trading, industrial refrigeration & air-conditioning, marketing and general management at senior level both locally and internationally, currently functions as the Group Executive Director of C. W. Mackie PLC group of companies and Managing Director of Kelani Velley Canneries Ltd. Mangala also serves on the Boards of Sunquick Lanka (pvt) Ltd., and Sunquick Lanka Properties (pvt) Ltd., which are joint-venture companies of Co-Ro A/S Denmark and C W Mackie PLC.

At present, Mangala heads the Internal Trading Division of C W Mackie PLC, managing 5 Strategic Business Units (SBUs): FMCG (manufacturing, import, marketing, distribution SBU); Industrial Products Business Operations SBU; Industrial refrigeration and air-conditioning SBU; Sugar Trading SBU; and Kelani Velley Canneries Ltd .

Mangala’s academic and professional qualifi­cations extends across multiple disciplines, which consists, a Masters in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo, a B.Sc. (Hons.) Marketing Management (Special) Degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, a post graduate Diploma in Business & Financial Management from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and a Fellow of the Australian Sales and Marketing Association. Mangala also served as a visiting lecturer at the Postgraduate Studies in Management at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and University of Colombo – Sri Lanka.

Mangala’s work experience includes, 2 years as the Business Development Manager for the Asia Paci­c region of an Australian Company based in Sydney and has closely worked with internationally reputed brands of several Multi National Corporates, such as, Kimberly Clark, Sanitarium Health Foods, Golden Circle, Arnott’s Biscuits and Eveready, overlooking business operations in Australia, Fiji, Samoa and Papua New Guinea.

An active marketing professional, Mangala has contributed immensely to the development of the Sri Lankan marketing fraternity and served on several national level project committees & judging panels. Mangala served as an Executive Committee member of Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) for 3 years and was the founder project chairman for ‘SLIM – Neilson Peoples Awards’.

In addition, Mangala actively engaged in national level sports administration and served as the President of the Sri Lanka Mercantile Volleyball Federation and has also played a vital role in promoting beach volleyball in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation.