Chevaan Daniel
| Chevaan Devavarathan Daniel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Chevaan Devavarathan Daniel May 11, 1978 Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Occupation | Group Director - Capital Maharaja Organization (Pvt) Ltd. |
| Website | chevaandaniel |
Chevaan Devavarathan Daniel (born May 11, 1978) is group director at The Capital Maharaja Organization. A Fulbright Scholar, he was twice selected as one of Sri Lanka's 40 Under 40 outstanding Young Business Leaders.
Chevaan's father is Ranjan Daniel (1950–2012) a Tamil, hailing from the village of Uduvil in Jaffna, while his mother is part Southern Sinhalese from Wakwella, Galle and part Dutch-Burgher. He is married to Dr. Raaidah Wahab.
Chevaan went to several rural schools before being finally admitted to S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia in 1988. Chevaan's maternal Grandfather, Harold Seneviratne, was a saxophonist and jazz musician with a career spanning over 50 years. Daniel has one son, Chelian Aleksander Daniel.
Having begun as a typist/translator at the MTV Newsroom, he steadily rose in the ranks to be appointed to the main board of the organization in 2013, as one of the youngest group directors in the company’s 80-year history (‘Cornerman’, page 138, ). He has consistently attributed his success to his mentor, R. Rajamahendran, the chairman/managing director of The Maharaja Organization. Early on, Daniel displayed his entrepreneurial spirit by launching a successful e-commerce company as an undergraduate, while also working as the Media Manager to the Sri Lanka Cricket Board for a period of two years, from 2000-2002.
Daniel also spent a few years working for the Victoria's Secret brand at MAS Holdings, under the tutelage of Dian Gomes. However, he is perhaps best known as an English news anchor on MTV Sri Lanka, becoming a household name in his early twenties.
Daniel represented The Capital Maharaja Organization, at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) - Regional Consultation which was held in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, in July 2015. Subsequently he was invited by the United Nations for Global Consultation on Humanitarian Efforts which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2015. Daniel was the Master of Ceremony for the duration of the WHS Global Consultation. Chevaan made an official statement at the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey in May, 2016.
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