‘Entrepreneurs and Intrepreneurs: Influencing Corporate Growth’
The Chartered Institute of Marketing Sri Lanka will be hosting its third Talking Point Programme for this year under the theme ‘Entrepreneurs and Intrepreneurs: Influencing Corporate Growth’ on 16th May 2018 at Barnes, Jetwing Colombo Seven from 6.00 pm onwards. It will be an interesting thought provoking session with a panel of experts. The programme will highlight the role of Intrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs in developing new ideas, innovations and the initiation of new projects. The speakers of the programme are Mr. Ahmed Irfan, Founder/Chief Executive, Innovation Quotient (Pvt) Ltd, Mr. Gihan Cooray, Group Finance Director, John Keelle Holdings Plc, Mr. Heshan Fernando, Co-Founder & CEO at oDoc, Dr. Himesh Fernando, Director- Innovation, Hemas Holdings PLC and Mr. Graham Marshall, CEO/Consultant, CIC, Industrial Solutions will be the moderator for the programme.
Charaka Perera, Head of Membership Development at CIM Sri Lanka stated “The main objective of the CIM Talking Point series is to initiate productive discussions within the marketing community and to impart knowledge on trending themes, challenges and opportunities in the market. We believe this topic will be useful for the participants to understand the role of Intrepreneurs in aspects of Organic growth and development of the corporate growth strategy and the session will also highlight the importance of Entrepreneurs that build companies and businesses with unique ideas and drive them with passion and commitment. We hope to continue to add value to all the marketing professionals through our Talking Point series”.
The Talking Point programmes are organized with the objective of highlighting emerging themes in marketing /business and to discuss best practices to support strategic decisions for the future. This forum will bring together top Business leaders, CIM Fellow Members and Corporate Executives and it will be a platform for participants to share and exchange key insights which would help them in making decisions in their own organizations.
CIM is the largest community of professional marketers in the world with 100 years of heritage delivering education, membership and insight offerings to the marketing and sales profession. CIM Sri Lanka is the first international branch of CIM UK comprising the largest number of members, both professional and students outside the UK. The regional institute has always campaigned for greater recognition and excellence in the marketing profession in Sri Lanka, through education, training and professional development.