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Apex Business Academy

Apex Business Academy proudly stands today as the most sought after secondary and tertiary education provider in Southern Sri Lanka. For nearly two decades, Apex has been revolutionary in its unique contribution towards education in the Down South. Very importantly, Apex has always promoted a rich culture of education, based on good values, despite being a profit-oriented private entity.  Apex introduced CIMA – globally the best qualification for management accountancy, for the first time ever in the Southern Province in 2007, marking a milestone in the professional education in the South. We take pride in our brilliant and award winning lecturer panel who gives our students the best of knowledge and exposure at Apex.

Continuing its passion for innovation, Apex launched an online learning platform called Apex Bellcube, the first of its kind in the history of CIMA from a private institute. This platform enables students to interact with lecturers and fellow students even outside the classroom; Apex Bellcube has immensely helped our students to transition into the CIMA new syllabus.

Our journey since the inception of the institute has been one of the fruitful efforts and duly deserved success in developing knowledge, skills and attitude of our students.  Apex has championed in producing all- rounded, well balanced, professionally qualified individuals stretching their potentials beyond a degree qualification, to cater to the requirements of the competitive corporate sector.

Apex initiated yet another innovation when it partnered with British Council to bring this most-reputed English language educator to the South. Apex Business Academy is the only local partner for British Council in Sri Lanka since 2014.

The secret behind our success is the superior quality of service, and our attention to detail. Our carefully crafted teaching methods, a mix of traditional and modern systems, coupled with our talented and committed staff has helped in shaping our students’ future into one of great success.

In its next most notable move, Apex Business Academy has set up its third branch in Colombo, expanding its CIMA education to the Western Province. Apex continues committed to the cause of education, and is constantly on the lookout for ways to help the young generation reach their highest potential.

 

Vision

  • To mold young talent to match global level potential

Mission

  • To provide our students with the highest quality education
  • To provide a mixture of traditional and modern education techniques to ensure multi-faceted student development
  • To develop multi-skilled professionals through our student development activities beyond the lecture hall
  • To create a platform for new local and global career opportunities through strategic alliances with key corporates in Sri Lanka
  • To add value to the society through our continued social responsibility

Our Values

  • We are student-oriented and are committed to their success with us
  • We uphold discipline and respect as core values
  • We invest in continuous development of our student as well as the institute
  • We build relationships based on transparency and mutual trust
  • We believe in honesty, truthfulness and hard work in everything we do

Managing Director's Message

A warm welcome to the Apex Business Academy!

 

It is with great pleasure that I pen this message to the Apex Business Academy website. With over 18 years of experience in the field of education, Apex has created a brand for itself as the trendsetter in the education of Southern Province, upholding the Best Teaching Traditions. Our sister organization Apex Education Centre is home to a student population of over 5,000 annually, helping them in their educational goals. We took an innovative move 8 years back by introducing the professional qualification – CIMA – to the Southern Province, the very first time this prestigious qualification was ever brought to the South. Over the past years we have touched and reshaped the lives of many youth of Southern Sri Lanka, helping them in their aspirations, not just educationally, but also professionally and socially.

Setting another milestone in Southern Education, we became the only local partner teaching centre for British Council since 2014, catering to the dire need of quality English Education in Southern Region. More over Apex become the 1st CIMA tuition provider to introduce an online learning portal –  Apex Bellcube, enabling our students to learn  and share knowledge 24/7 from wherever they are located.

We firmly believe in providing our students with the best facilities for education. Our motto ‘Global Standards at Home’ indicates our passion to ensuring that our Southern youngsters are treated with the best in the world in the comfort of their home town. The activities we organize for our students outside the lecture halls like Career Guidance Sessions, Corporate Exposure, Personality Development programs help them not just to unleash their potential, but also to develop self-confidence and personality and leadership. With two global brands under Apex, we have opened up new career avenues for our youngsters, and help them succeed in their career ladder

Our efforts bore fruition in many ways – our students have become Associate members of CIMA, our students have obtained gainful employment in the private sector, and most importantly our students have won prizes at the global and national level, competing against students from all parts of the world, a happiness that we cherish with a hint of humble pride. Our world prize winning students show that with the right guidance of our lecturers, the world is their oyster!

Over the years, if we have proved one thing it is our commitment to excellence and resilience to any obstacle to achieving our objective. We look forward to many more years of pioneering success in a trend setting education in the Sri Lanka. With the excellent hard work of our valued staff members, we are committed to delivering the best in education for our next generation.

 

Warm wishes!

Deshani Gamage – Managing Director

Founder Director's Message

Dear all

 

I take immense pleasure in penning this message to all of you, as the Founder Director of Apex Business Academy. As my very designation implies, I have been with Apex Business Academy since its inception, and have seen it grow from a baby to the giant in the professional education in the South that Apex is today. In a revolutionary move in the education sector in Southern Sri Lanka, Apex Business Academy introduced CIMA qualification in Matara and Galle, bringing home a globally acclaimed management accountancy qualification. Parterning with British Council, the first ever business model of its kind to improve the English language skills among Southerns was yet another milestone worthy of mention in this brief message. We have now ventured outside the Southern borders to set up our branch in Colombo, and look forward to the many opportunities that would come our way to brighten the futures of our future generations.

 

With very best wishes
Ranmini Vithanagama

Founder Director

 

Board of Directors

Deshani Gamage

Managing Director

B.Sc-Human Resource Management (Special) University of Sri Jayawardanapura

 

Deshani Gamage holds a special degree in Human Resource Management from University of Sri Jayawardhenapura. After a successful career in several well sought after organizations including Nations Trust Bank, Load star to name a few, she has moved full time into her own business of education. Apex Education Centre, which she started only when she was 18, has now blossomed into one of the leading tuition centres in the country with a student base of more than 5000, and the many engineers, doctors, accountants, scientists that the institute has gifted to Sri Lanka’s intellectual wealth over the years speaks volumes for its excellence in local education. She was the personality instrumental in first bringing CIMA to Southern Province, and under her guidance, Apex Business Academy now leads the Southern CIMA market. In 2014 adding a new dimension to Southern Education, she was able to bring down British Council - best qualification for English language in the world to Galle and Matara.

Under her guidance Apex has always given priority to our corporate social responsibility, Apex along with CIMA has contributed to the uplifting of sports in schools, provided financial backing for government-led teacher training programmes, organizing personality development & leadership programs in schools, in Apex’s vision of building a smart future generation. With all these efforts, Apex has pushed the boundaries and strengthened the dreams of our children in the South.

Her unending dedication and commitment along with her unparalleled personality has been the key strength behind the success story of Apex. Proving which, she has been awarded continuously throughout for her expertise and skills. Best Young Business Entrepreneur Award in 2004, Entrepreneur of the year in 2010 awarded by the University of Sri Jayawardanapura, and Best Women Entrepreneur of the year in 2014 awarded by the Chamber of Commerce are few of the accolades she received.

Ranmini Vithanagama

Founder Director

B.A. in Economics (University of Colombo), M.Econ (University of Colombo),
(Economics), Reading for Ph.D. in Economics (University of Colombo), ACMA, CGMA

 

Ranmini is a Founder Director of Apex Business Academy and has been a part of the institute since its inception. She also is a senior and highly experienced lecturer in the panel with more than 7 years of lecturing experience. With all her expertise in Economics and Finance and several years of corporate experience, she is currently lecturing Fundamentals of Business Economics and is charge of the Foundation Level. She is known for her committed lecturing and focused on achieving success for all the students and maintaining high pass rates.

She currently works as a consultant to several academic and financial institutions. Prior to that she worked for an international boutique equity research firm as the Regional Economist and the Head of Financial Sector and was involved primarily in working on the Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Pakistan economies and banks. She was also a senior research analyst attached to NDB Stockbrokers, specializing in the hotel and plantation sectors and also worked on the Sri Lankan economy. Furthermore she has worked at Amba Research (Pvt.) Ltd, a globally sought Knowledge Process Outsourcing company with operations in Sri Lanka, India and Costa Rica. Moreover, she is equipped with the experience of several globally known investment banks as an offshore analyst, both in the UK and East Asia.

Parallel to her full time employment, she is currently reading for her PhD in Economics at University of Colombo focusing on disability and Economics. In addition, she is a researcher attached to Centre for Migration Research and Development. In addition, she works as a freelance financial analyst and an economist.

Prof. K.D.N.Weerasinghe

Director

Prof. Weerasinghe, Prof. Emeritus, (Univ Ruhuna), and Vice Rector, International Tertiary Education Asia campus (INTECAsia), has more than 35 years of academic experiences with excellent international exposure to high calibre research. Currently he serves as a consultant to Cinnamon Research program (Ministry of Primary Industries,and NSF,) Agriculturist to Colombo Flood modelling project, and consultant to EU project Advancing skill Creation to enhance transformation(ASCENT).

He is an Engineer Agronomist, holding a first class Diploma and M.Sc (Hon) degree (1975) and Ph.D (1980) in Agriculture, from Friendship University Moscow. He was the first Agric. Officer in Hatton National bank (1975). During 1981-2014 he was a senior academic in faculty of Agriculture University of Ruhuna and held number of Admin positions. He was instrumental to create Department of Agricultural Engineering being the founder Chair professor and Head of the Department since 1993. He was elected as the Dean of the faculty of Agriculture for two full terms (2001 - 2007). He also worked as a Director De Research in ORSTOM, Montpellier France, (1988-90), Advanced Research fellow in Durham University UK, (2009), Consultant, for Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) Bangkok, Thailand (2012- to date), Consultant for the World Bank Project, on Higher education for twenty First century (HETC) (2012) and consultant in Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute (2010-2012) during his sabbatical terms.

Prof. Weerasinghe is an internationally well renowned scientist in the areas of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Resilience building and Ecosystems based adaptation (EBA), He has the expertise training on Application of Nuclear techniques in Agriculture from International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA , Viena), Agric. Climatology from leading climate research Institutions Univ. of East Anglia , UK, ICRISAT (INDIA), and IRAT, CIRAD (Montpellier France), Agric. Research Management, from National Academy of Agric. Research Management (NAARM),India, Innovation led sustainable development (VINNOVA, Sweden). Emergency drinking water treatment methods (Univ. of Karlsruhe Germany). He is a pioneer researcher who undertook cinnamon technology mechanization program in Sri Lanka for which he was awarded the Ashoka fellow (US) in social entrepreneurship in 2010.

During his carrier of 35 years, Prof. Weeerasinghe represented number of national governing bodies. He was the founder member and Chairman of the Ruhuna Business Incubator Company,(RBI), in 2004; Board, member in the Water Resources development Authority, Sri Lanka,(2007-2009) Served in National Subcommittee on Agriculture and Food Technology in National Science Foundation (NSF) (2006-2008), A Member of governing council of Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technical Education (SLIAT), a Member of the consultative committee of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), board member of Management, in Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture, (PGIA) University of Peradeniya, board, member of the Faculty of Engineering Technology, Open University of Sri Lanka. During 1990-2000,Prof. Weerasinghe took the task to revise the GCE (Ordinary Level) and (Advance Level) syllabuses, B.Ed degree course in Agriculture and preparation of course manuals for NIE and served as a Examiner in Agric. Sciences in Dept. of Examination. He was a Senior Consultant, to Southern Development Authority, Council member, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS) (1997-98 and 2003-2004) President, Federation of University teachers Association (FUTA) (1998-99) (General President, Agricultural Engineering Society of Sri Lanka 2000-2001). During 2000 - 2008 he was the joint editor of the International Journal on Tropical Agriculture and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna. He also served in the Director Board of the Lucky Lanka Dairy company.
Prof. Weerasinghe has international work experience in many countries in Asia, and Europe. He has published more than 100 international journal papers and more than 200 Conference papers. Prof. Weerasinghe was intensively Engaged with community restoration and resilience building programs, after 2004 Tsunami, coordinating CIDA (Canada), German Corporation, NSF (US), World Bank, AusAID and ADPC, programs in disaster resilience and response management. He has Worked actively in indigenous technology development for unprivileged sectors by initiating and coordinating Number of international projects (GTZ (Germany), ViINNOVA, (Sweden), UNIDO (Vienna), World Bank) and national agencies (Dept. of Minor Export crops, NSF, Cinnamon grower associations, Spice association of Sri Lanka ect.). He Work with Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) since 2010 as a consultant in Climate Change and Resource management program and engage in flood mitigation and coastal ecosystems restoration programs to meet the challenges in Climate challenges in coastal ecosystems of Vietnam and Sri Lanka. He is a leading scientist engage with restoration of paddy ecosystems degraded in Nilwala Flood protection scheme.
Prof. Weerasinghe is a winner of many national and international awards including National award for Disaster resilience 2014, Gold medals at world cup of Computer implemented inventions Taipei 2007, Suzhou, China, (2008), UGC award for excellence in attracting funds for research in (2004), Vice Chancellors awards of the Ruhuna University for the most outstanding promoter of the international relations (2004), most outstanding inventor innovator (2005), Highest recipient of Research grants 2005, and most outstanding Senior Scholar 2006. Currently he engages with number of prestigious International research programs with ADPC (Bangkok), European community (EU), Global Disaster preparedness center (R2R program) by linking many national and international Institutions.