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Gayani is a leading Supply Chain Professional. She was the former Director, Customer Service and Management Committee member of Unilever Sri Lanka LTD responsible for Supply Chain. Gayani holds a MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) of University of Sri Jayewardenepura Sri Lanka and MSc in Food Process Engineering from University of Reading, UK.

Gayani is the Global Chairperson of WiLAT. She is the Immediate Past President of Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and Founding Chairperson and Advisor of Women in Logistics and Transport (WiLAT) Sri Lanka. She is the only Fellow of both CILT and Institute of Supply and Materials Management (ISMM) in the country. She is a a Council member of Open University of Sri Lanka.

She has been a strong advocate of women empowerment and has received many awards and accolades for her career achievements. She is a Non-Executive independent Director of Singer Sri Lanka PLC and a Director of Logicare Pvt LTD and a Consultant to the World Bank, ADB and many leading blue chip companies and a visiting faculty member for postgraduate programs in many local and foreign universities.