Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Payment Architect of Epic Lanka Viraj Mudalige, was recently conferred with the prestigious ‘ICT Leader of the Year’ award at the National CSSL ICT Awards 2019 for spearheading and designing an array of breakthrough technology platforms for the local and global banking and financial services sectors. Held at Shangri-La Colombo, the coveted accolade was presented to Mudalige by Ajith P. Perera, Minister of Digital infrastructure and information technology.
Mudalige has over 20 years of experience in the fields of Electronics Engineering and Information Technology. He is an award-winning Payment Solutions Architect in FinTech solutions, winning over 60 national and international accolades, including Sri Lanka’s first-ever Gold award at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA). Mudalige has been instrumental in creating a workforce at Epic with domain expertise in Fintech solutions.
A Chartered Engineer by profession, he received his graduate award in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the UK.
Mudalige also holds two master’s degrees in Information Technology and Business Administration.
Commenting about his life-time recognition, Mudalige said, “I am truly honoured to be recognised as the ICT leader of the year at the National CCSL National Awards, one of the premier ICT awards ceremonies in Sri Lanka. Under my leadership, Epic became a strong IT brand in Sri Lanka, and Epic Lanka completed significant projects in Fintech and exported our domain expertise in Fintech to the APAC region.
“I consider this recognition as the pinnacle of my career, and I dedicate this award to my family, parents and my second family - Epic.”
Mudalige’s first breakthrough came in 2004 when he introduced the concept of branchless banking to the world. Considered as a channel innovation to reach the masses, Epic Branchless Banker provides an effective platform for Banks and Financial institutions to deliver a variety of banking services online and in real-time.
With the introduction of this novel concept, Epic helped local banks to significantly expand their last-mile reach and deliver service excellence to their customers at their door-step, regardless of the geographical location.
After successfully implementing branchless banking in Sri Lanka, Mudalige took a step further and rolled out Branchless Banking in Malaysia. It enabled several Malaysian banks to deploy thousands of field officers to offer on-line real-time banking through hand-carried mobile devices to reach Malaysia’s unbanked and underbanked segments. In 2008, Mudalige brought Sri Lanka’s first-ever Gold award home at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) for Branchless Banker.
Some of Mudalige’s other breakthrough innovations include Epic Terminal Line Encryption (TLE), Epic Card Management System (CMS), Android Terminal Experience Management Hub, Automated Transaction Reconciliation and Dispute Management Solution (DMS), Omni-Channel Synchronizer (OCS), Epic 3-D Secure and Epic Mobile Wallet.
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