Colombo, 12 June 2023. Senior IT professional Yusuf Shiraz was recently appointed CEO of Ezoref Technologies Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the South Asian Technologies Group.
A widely experienced individual who has been in the Sri Lankan IT industry for over twenty two years, Shiraz began his IT journey with a few renowned local IT companies such as DMS and Softlogic. Broadening his career, he also worked for many multi-national companies during this period.
Shiraz joined VMware as Head of Channels and was later promoted to Country Manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 2021.
Prior to joining VMWare, Yusuf was with Dell Technologies as a Business Head to manage the strategic accounts for Sri Lanka and also to oversee end-to-end business for Maldives. Prior to Dell he served as Country Business Manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives with Lenovo and also as the Regional Channel Manager with Hewlett-Packard for the Asia Emerging Markets Region.
Shiraz holds a degree in computer science from LCC, InfoTech, Indonesia and is currently reading for an MBA at the Asia eUniversity, Malaysia.