Dr. Tissaweera Sriyan Jinasena (Tissa Jinasena) was born in 1948 to the well-known Jinasena engineering family as the youngest of four boys. He now carries the torch which was lit by his legendary grandfather the late engineer Colomba-patabandige Jinasena (the founder of the Jinasena group) and passed on to him by his illustrious father the late Deshamanya Engineer T.S. Jinasena Sr. He had his entire school education at St Thomas’s College, Mt Lavinia. He proceeded to the United Kingdom for university education in Engineering following the footsteps of his father and brothers in 1967. After obtaining Bachelor of Technology degree from University of Loughborough he earned a Master of Science degree from University of Reading. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts. In 2008 University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka conferred an Honorary Doctorate on Dr Jinasena in recognition of the unprecedented contribution he has made to the industrial and manufacturing sectors in post-colonial Sri Lanka and his contribution to the humanitarian sector. Returning home, he commenced his career in 1973 as a Director at Jinasena Group owned by his family where he was instrumental in establishing Jinasena Electric Motors (Pvt.) Limited, Jinasena Agricultural Machineries (Pvt.) Ltd and Jinasena Engineering Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd In 1984 he played a key role in establishing Loadstar (Pvt.) as part of the Jinasena Group with ten employees. He was appointed Director Engineering and went on to become the Joint Managing Director and CEO at which time had a work force of more than 8000 and was the largest single foreign exchange earner for Sri Lanka. Loadstar is considered as a world leader in Solid tires and a significant player in industrial and construction sectors. Dr. Jinasena was; a founder board member of SLINTEC, which is the institution sphere heading the national Nano Technology Initiative of Sri Lanka, and was a Steering Committee Member of the