Soma Edirisinghe built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Soma Edirisinghe as Sri Lankan businessman (1939–2015).
Soma Edirisinghe was born at Sri Lanka in 1939. Her recorded nationality is Sri Lanka. She was educated at Samudradevi Balika Vidyalaya.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
She worked as entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from Sri Lanka shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Soma Edirisinghe died in 2015, aged 76. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Samudradevi Balika Vidyalaya
