Chathuranga Bandara

Head of Research

• Current Role

  Chathuranga Bandara currently serves as Head of Research and is responsible for leading our talent sourcing team and activities across EMEA. In addition he is responsible for co-creation of search strategy development, conducting market research, approaching, identifying & screening candidates, candidate care and supporting business development initiatives. He works out of SpenglerFox’ offices in Dubai, UAE.

• Experience

  Chathuranga joined SpenglerFox in 2015, and has played an active role in Executive Search assignments for different industry sectors, mainly focusing on life Science, FMCG and Industry Manufacturing projects across the Middle East Africa and Turkey. ​

  Chathuranga has over 9 years of combined experience in Human Resources, Recruitment and Executive Search, the expertise in which he developed across in-house recruitment, contingency and retained firms during his career. Chathuranga specialises in executive talent acquisition for local and global clients. He has thorough expertise in nationalization projects in UAE and KSA. He started his career as an HR Executive for the hospitality sector in Sri Lanka, focusing on HR processes and Recruitment for 5-star city hotels in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

   

• Qualifications

  Chathuranga holds a Bachelor’s in Electronic Business Management and Logistics from South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China.