Virtusa records 30% growth in employment

Virtusa recorded a 30 percent growth in employment this year in its global business, said an official of Virtusa Corporation at a photographic exhibition held at the company premises. He said that global business had grown many fold this year and added that the company hopes to expand its operations. “Sri Lanka is a huge market for Virtusa and we are geared to harness the full potential of the business in the country with our innovative products,” he said.

Virtusa's is a global Information Technology (IT) services company providing IT consulting, technology implementation and outsourcing services. Its revenue for the last financial year was US$ 278 m. The company's has 2,000 global entities as clients spread across UK, USA, Europe, Middle East, India and Sri Lanka. The company has won many local and international accolades.

Virtusa held the 'Silver Pixels' a global photographic exhibition which showcased the photographic skills of employees of Virtusa for the eighth consecutive year. At this year's exhibition they captured photographs under the categories of people, places, nature and millennium. Twenty photographers were selected from around 200 entries.

Virtusa Sri Lanka Head of Human Resource Management, Sanjeev Palithawardana said that programs of this nature will help harness the talent of young dynamic photographers across all Virtusa offices in the country.

The winners of this years exhibition were Dinoo Perera, Rasika Withanage, Aruna Dissanayake in the 'People' category, Saman Dayananda, Mohamed Ifham Uwais, Sukitha Udugamasooriya, in the 'Places' category, Thilina Adrian Dharmaratne, Surendra Silva, Anjana Chandrapala in the 'Nature' category and Shian Chinthaka, Chandu Godabedda and Shehara Silva in the 'Millennium' category.

- LF