Rajitha wins ‘ICT Entrepreneur of the Year’ award at NBQSA 2011

Founder and CEO of the award winning online marketing agency, eMarketingEye, Rajitha Dahanayake was named ICT Entrepreneur of the Year at the National Best Quality ICT Awards Ceremony this year. The coveted award, striving to showcase and benchmark the Sri Lankan ICT industry and its pioneers, was presented to Dahanayake for his work in the field of Online Marketing. The company also received a Bronze award at NBQSA 2011 for version 1.0 of “BookingEye”, an Internet booking engine.

An accomplished internet marketing professional with over 12 years experience in online marketing, Dahanayake specialise in the formulation of end-to-end online marketing strategies. He is an expert in search engine optimisation (SEO), Pay per Click (PPC) marketing, Social Media marketing, Performance Analysis and E-Commerce strategy. Rajitha is a Google AdWords Qualified Search Advertising individual and a certified eMarketer from the eMarketing Association of USA.

Prior to establishing eMarketingEye (Private) Limited, this dynamic entrepreneur headed the Online Marketing team at a UK based Web Design and Online Marketing Company, specialising in e-commerce solutions for the travel and hospitality industry. He has also worked in a number of other companies as a consultant and as an e-Marketing analyst.

eMarketingEye was founded in 2007 to realise Dahanayake’s vision of ‘Optimising the Future’. Built on the principles of performance based marketing and complete transparency, eMarketingEye has won numerous awards and accolades. The company currently works with over 300 hotels and travel companies including Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Raffles Hotels and Resorts, Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces, Anantara Hotels, Resorts and Spas, John Keells Hotels and Jetwing Hotels to name a few.

Considered an Asian thought leader in Online Marketing, eMarketingEye will present Optimising the Future 2011 on 1 November, to help Sri Lankan Business leverage the internet effectively. Twelve speakers, including representatives from Google, comScore, Preferred Hotel Group are set to take the podium.eMarketingEye is Sri Lanka’s only Google AdWords and Google Analytics Certified Partner Company, as well as the only Yahoo! Web Analytics Consultant Network Member.

The National Best Quality ICT Awards (NBQSA) competition is an annual event organised by the BCS The Chartered Institute for IT Sri Lanka (BCSSL) Section. In this globally competitive era the competition serves to showcase and benchmark Sri Lankan ICT products.