Ganesh Selvarajah

Adviser

Business Link

Ganesh began his business career in IT, working at the corporate headquarters of Whitbreads, with breweries and pubs nationally, where he ran mainframe corporate systems. While in IT at Colgate-Palmolive the opportunity arose to move into international market development, at a very exciting time when the Central and Eastern European markets were just opening up. During this very rapid transition he spent much of his time visiting many of the company’s 27 export countries, where he was responsible for setting up the markets in the emerging states from the Baltics to the Balkans and Russia. From Colgate-Palmolive, Ganesh moved on to Kimberley Clark where his role was to establish their presence in the Central and Eastern European markets. After successfully establishing these new markets, Ganesh took the opportunity to find a job closer to home in the south east of England. First based in Wiltshire and then Surrey, Ganesh joined Business Link in 1997 when he took on the role of International Trade Adviser, he progressed to run the International Trade team across Berkshire and Wiltshire. In 2007 Ganesh took on the top job of Head of Economic and Business Development.