Jury

A marketer who believes in bringing together the magic of creativity and the power of logic to drive brands towards growth. With extensive experience handling market leading FMCG brands such as Astra and Vaseline during her tenure at Unilever Sri Lanka, she achieved the impossible when she led a global cross functional team spread across many countries to reinstate the full Astra fat spread portfolio with the full cold chain intact, post the manufacturing factory burining down. She’s currently the chief marketing officer at Sunshine Consumer Lanka Ltd leading market leading tea brands such as Watawala, Zesta, Rankahata and Confectionary brands like Daintee, Milady and Xtra.She was previously leading the marketing team of the 2nd largest life insurer in Sri Lanka as the Chief Marketing Officer and was a critical contributor to its climb from the 5th position in the market to the 2nd over the last 5years. She was able to shift the life insurance industry’s usual fear mongering marketing norms towards positive, inspirational and most importantly ethical marketing which led to Softlogic Life becoming the Brand of the year two years in a row at Effie Awards Sri Lanka. Over the 13 year career she has led many campaigns that had led multiple awards locally at SLIM Brand Excellence, SLIM Digis, Effies,MMA Smarties mobile awards Asia, Dragins of Asia (including the best campaign in Sri Lanka), WARC awards in Asia, in the APAC region as well as globally. Adjudged the “Marketing Professional of The Year” at the 2022 Top 50 women in management awards, and “ The Young Inspirational corporate leader of the year” at 2022 CEO magazing awards, Kavi is recognized for her skill in getting thing done. Hence, she’s a constant jury member at many local and global marketing award panels and an advisor of the nation branding project.