Programme delivery
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Estonia
IrelandTopia Mobility
Getting delivery back on track.
Four distressed enterprise implementations. A delivery reset, restored client governance and a route through to completion.
4 programmes turned aroundRead the case
Sri LankaMaking transformation work across a group.
Connecting group ambition with business-unit delivery across healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumer businesses.
MY ROLEDirector & Group Chief Digital OfficerENGAGEMENTJanuary 2022 – October 2023
THE ORGANISATION / CONTEXT & SCALE
About Hemas Holdings.
Hemas Holdings is a Sri Lankan listed group operating across consumer products, healthcare and mobility. Founded in 1948 as a pharmaceutical trading business in Colombo, it grew into a diversified group and listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 2003.
Its healthcare interests sit within a much broader enterprise spanning pharmaceutical distribution and manufacturing, hospitals and consumer businesses. The group’s published profile reports more than 4,500 employees and regional operations in Bangladesh and West Bengal, giving context to the breadth of a group-level transformation remit.
- Sector
- Consumer, healthcare and mobility
- Location
- Sri Lanka; regional operations
- History
- Founded 1948; listed in 2003
- Scale
- 4,500+ employees, company-reported
Sources & context
Company profile checked September 2026. Group-wide scale is separate from the scope of individual transformation programmes.
2400-bed hospitals
Group-widetransformation remit
IFCDigiHealth Blueprint co-author
What needed to change.
A legacy corporate group needed coordinated digital transformation across very different businesses. The task was to turn broad ambition into practical roadmaps, capability and delivery within each business unit.
What I was there to own.
- Group-wide digital transformation and business-unit execution.
- Digital talent, capability building and transformation roadmaps.
- Healthcare transformation across hospitals, diagnostics and related operations.
From the problem to the work.
- 01
Work across the businesses
Managed transformation spanning pharmaceutical distribution and manufacturing, hospitals, diagnostics and consumer businesses.
- 02
Build delivery capability
Recruited digital talent and developed transformation roadmaps with business-unit teams.
- 03
Make healthcare transformation repeatable
Supported IFC funding and co-curation of the IFC DigiHealth Blueprint.
What changed.
- Implemented transformation across two 400-bed hospitals and related healthcare operations.
- Co-authored the IFC DigiHealth Blueprint for healthcare digital transformation.
A note on these outcomes
The hospital scope and Blueprint contribution are recorded in my September 2026 CV. These describe the scale and nature of the work, not a quantified financial return.
The case, in a little more detail.
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Something difficult
worth working through?
A business to build. A programme to recover. A decision that needs an experienced pair of eyes.
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