About us

Eksara Jayan is a lead business analyst at a global technology company, working for global Fortune 500 companies. He has over a decade of expertise in business analysis and enterprise transformation. In the middle of his career, at a young age, he spearheaded the business analyst practice of a prominent global Fortune 50 company’s business analysis and product design team in Sri Lanka. With diverse experiences across 5 completely different organizations, Eksara has established a fully fledged business analyst unit with school leavers, training and applying them to designing complex financial products and revolutionizing workflows by pioneering design thinking practices.

Notably, Eksara was the first in Sri Lanka to execute Google style design sprints inside a financial institution, extending with lean methodologies and human centered design for enterprise and core system development.

With his experience as a board director in a prominent professional body for Business Analysts in Sri Lanka, he has been dedicating his time and effort to community building. He shares his knowledge and insights through a prominent newsletter, The Classy Business Analyst, sharing tips and best practices for the growing field of Business analysis. A prolific speaker, Eksara has addressed global audiences at major events, including the 2024 Festival of Business Analysis by IIBA Australia, the IIBA Tampa Bay Chapter, Regional Scrum Gathering Sri Lanka, and business analysts in multiple IT organizations in Sri Lanka as well as attending as a speaker and panelist at multiple universities in Sri Lanka.

With a Master’s in Business Analytics, an MBA from the University of West London, and multiple certifications including Certified Professional Scrum Master, Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Agilist, Certified Salesforce Business Analyst, and Certified Agile Coach Eksara combines academic rigor with hands on expertise.