Posted:April 28, 2022

Edga Melan is a professional qualified engineer with 20 years of experience in both inland and overseas corporate industries in tea rubber and oil palm plantations, consultancy, manufacturing, fabric and garments sectors. He obtained MBA (Merit) from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, in 2022, where his field research won the best paper award at PIM-ARC 2022 as well. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Moratuwa. He is also a qualified professional of Certified Management Accountancy (CMA), Australia and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI, USA. He has followed project management at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, a certified practitioner in Corporate Environmental Sustainability, National Cleaner Production Centre, Sri Lanka and trained in screen printing at Sefar AG, Switzerland.

Edga has served as head of engineering in Elpitiya Plantation PLC by Aitken Spence Plantations, Tin Pak Pvt Ltd, Goodhope Asia Holdings (Oil Palm Upstream) in Indonesia, Trischel Fabrics & Textprint Lanka by MAS Holdings, Teejay fabric group (Sri Lanka & India) and currently heading the group engineering team at Brandix Apparels for Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh.

He posses 02 patents in palm oil mechanization equipment and won bronze award at OPEXCON Awards 2015 in Indonesia for the same. He is an associate member of IESL (Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka), life member of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS) and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Professional Managers of Sri Lanka (CPM). He is also a visiting lecturer in couple of leading universities in Sri Lanka in the fields of operations management, sustainability and engineering management.