Journalist Summary:

Lakshan Abeyawardena is a passionate leader with over 10 years of experience in Financial Software. He currently leads a team as Head of Strategic Business at Hitachi Digital Payment Solutions, where he focuses on presales, sales, account and partner management, strategic initiatives, and marketing. Lakshan is a technical expert in the FinTech field, connecting the dots between complex software products and business user benefits. He has designed key payment solutions for leading banks, telcos, and fintechs across Asia, including a national switching project in the Philippines and a tokenized payment solution deployment for an Uber-like company in Sri Lanka. Lakshan studied management of information technology at the University of Nottingham and information systems engineering at Multimedia University. When he is not working, he enjoys playing strategy games and reading about FinTech, Leadership, and Productivity.