Mr Asela Galappattige is a respected professional engineer and a business leader committed to deliver excellence to the organisations he serves. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow Member of Institute of Engineers of Sri Lanka (IESL). He has earned his BSc degree in Engineering (Honors) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Moratuwa, a Masters degree in Wireless Systems from University of Bath, UK, and an MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management of University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Mr Asela has 25 years of experience in the ICT industry. Since joining Sri Lanka Telecom in 1998 as a planning engineer, he has held many technical and managerial positions in SLT and, has risen to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Telecom Services Limited in year 2020.

He has had an illustrious carrier with well-rounded experience in engineering and management in the areas of internet networks & services, data center development, information security, project management, supply chain management, business continuity management and corporate leadership and management.
Mr Asela is a well-respected Internet technology evangelist, contributing to the Internet technical community under local and global voluntary societies and groups as an executive committee member, a trainer and a resource person. He also contributes as a visiting lecturer at national universities for engineering graduate studies.