Mr Chaminda Gunasekera FCILT
Senior Director: Air Freight / Ecommerce / Network Development: Asia & Middle East, Africa, SEKO LOGISTICS, Head of the Board, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport - UK (UAE chapter) Dubai , UAEChaminda Gunasekera is currently based in Dubai, working for SEKO LOGISTICS as a Senior Director: Air Freight/Ecommerce/Network Development: Asia & M.East, Africa . Chaminda’s main focus is expanding the international network for SEKO LOGISTICS and developing the brand. Chaminda also serves as a head of the Board Directors for Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in UAE (UK Chapter)
Chaminda is a “Fellow of the Chartered Member of Institute of Logistics and Transport” (FCILT) and qualified in Six Sigma and NLP. Prior to SEKO, Chaminda served as a Group Director-Commercial for Able Logistics (Kerry Logistics network) and he was the Vice president for Commercial and a member of the management of Agility Logistics Ltd in Greater China based in Hong Kong. He was also one of the architects of the global sea-air programs for Agility, BAX Global-Schenker, Kerry and functioned as the head of Air freight for greater China (Agility), and member of the global fashion and retail development teams in All companies he served. Chaminda has spent over 10 years in Shanghai and Hong Kong region at senior positions in commercial, product and management.
Chaminda is known to the industry as one of the a leading sustainability solution designers , having invented the best carbon savings tool via Sea-air product which is a world’s first innovative logistics solution for sustainable transport as an alternative to Air freight . He has been a guest speaker for the United Nations Economic Social forum (UN-ESCAP) and other forums on carbon emission savings by transport.
Chaminda’s current focus is to develop E-commerce solutions in the Middle East, Africa & Indian subregion which is still growing compared to mature markets. Chaminda is spending time to influence the authorities on mature ecom clearance processes and gateway policies in UAE, Oman and other markets connecting all the Asian market places and sellers. This goes along with his expertise on Air Freight and multimodal products.