Co-Founder | Seeni Colombo
Before Mario co-founded Seeni Colombo, he was the head honcho creative at Synapse Original Myanmar (2018 – 2021). During his tenure the agency was awarded Creative and Digital Agency of the Year 2020. He was also Chief Creative at Mango JWT Myanmar from 2013 – 2017. Under his watch, Mango JWT was awarded Campaign Brief Asia Creative Agency of the Year 2017 and 2018, and Independent Agency of the Year 2018.
Whilst creative direction and writing are Mario’s core talents, he’s a seasoned strategic and branding specialist with the knack for uncovering brand truths, weaving local and cultural insights to unearth ideas and create stories that connect and resonate with the target audience.
His work for brands and agencies has been awarded at Campaign Asia (Asia Pacific), Spikes Asia, Ad Fest, GOAFEST, The Reggie Candappa Awards, The Chillies & The Effie Awards, Sri Lanka.
Brand repertoire: Unilever Sri Lanka/Myanmar, Samsung, Dialog Axiata, AIA Insurance, Prudential Insurance, Yoma Holdings, Standard Chartered Bank, Nations Trust Bank, Coca Cola Company, Heineken, Audi, Carlsberg, WWF, WildAid, Telenor.
A creative storyteller at heart, Mario’s passion for advertising has been fueled by his other creative passions of theatre, food and travel. He believes that building relationships, bridging social and cultural divides and articulating values on behalf of brands are challenging but also bloody good fun.
Mario De Soyza
Co-Founder | Seeni Colombo
Before Co-Founding Seeni Colombo, Ransley was the Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Groupe overseeing the strategic, creative and digital output at Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Publicis 2019 - 2022. During his watch, Leo Burnett was awarded the No. 1 Creative Agency of The Year from Campaign Brief Asia. After winning numerous international and local creativity and effectiveness awards from Campaign Brief Asia, Ransley was awarded Creative Director of the Year 2020 - 2021.
Ransley moved to Bangkok, Thailand as the Regional Creative Director at MullenLowe Thailand in 2016. There he was creative lead overseeing Unilever brands Rexona, Pepsodent, Citra and Knorr in the Greater Mekong region. Clients included MG, Haribo, Thai Airways, Traveloka and Rabbit Line Pay, Khmer Beverages.
Ransley has been the creative architect for brand campaigns across the greater Mekong region, including Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Ransley is also part of jury panels at international advertising festivals and has been a jury member at New York Advertising Festival 2017, Lisbon Ad Festival 2017, and Adstars 2017 Busan South Korea 2017, 2018, & 2019. Ransley was an London International Advertising (LIA) festival Creative Mentor 2021.
Ransley Burrows
Co-Founder | Seeni Colombo
Dushan is an ideas and design think tank with over 16 years experience in advertsiging in Sri Lanka and Myanmmar.
Dushan started his advertising career as an intern at TBWA Sri Lanka when he was 19. His ECD wanted him to try out one month in the Creative department and one month in Brands. Dushan never tried out Brands, because he fitted in perfectly as a designer.
After starting his advertising and design career at TBWA and creating some memorable campaigns for big corporate brands like AIA, Prima and Browns Group to name a few, he then moved to Phoenix Ogilvy and worked on creative and effective campaigns for Coca-Cola, SLT, Hemas, GSK, Perfetti Van Melle, and many more.
Dushan soon became one of Sri Lanka’s most sought after Art Directors as he won the Cannes Young Lions competition 3 consecutive years in a row, and twice he represented Sri Lanka at the Young Lions global creative show at Cannes, France. Dushan is probably the only Designer in the world to have won the Young Lions Creative Competition 3 consecutive times in a row. This gave him the opportunity to be trained by some of the global ad industries’ most-awarded creative, strategic, and design luminaries at the the Young Lions training programmes at Cannes from 2013 to 2015.
Dushan then moved to Yangon Myanmar and enjoyed a successful 6 year stint there where he was the Creative Director and Design Lead at the Mango Group.