Dushyantha De Silva featured in Forbes ‘30 under 30 Asia 2022’ list

Dushyantha De Silva, Managing Director and co-founder of SOZO Beverages (Pvt) Ltd was recently featured by Forbes in its seventh annual ‘30 under 30 Asia’ The Arts (Art & Style, Food & Drink) list, obtaining recognition for Sri Lanka through international quality beverages. 

Dushyantha together with his wife, Gianee, initiated home kitchen experiments in 2016 to create bottled iced tea and innovative fruit beverages and marketed them to consumer for guilt free drinking pleasure and convenience. 

This experiment soon escalated and led to SOZO, a thriving business which has sold over a million bottles of fruit juices, iced teas and syrups made only with 100 percent natural ingredients and no preservatives. Today SOZO is a well-loved and much sought-after brand that has enraptured the beverage industry, propelling it to new heights of innovation and flavour.

Commenting on the recognition, Dushyantha said, “This recognition is timely and is a great dose of encouragement to keep doing what we love and to go on to greater heights. I am extremely thankful to our loyal customers for the continued support and belief they had in us, right from the inception. 

They have been our source of strength throughout the challenging years leading to our success to-date. We will continue to challenge the norm, innovate and hope to delight you with exciting products in the months to come.” 

The Forbes list featured over 300 young, innovative entrepreneurs under the age of 30 across the Asia-Pacific region who have disrupted and inspired change through innovation and creativity in their chosen fields and industries overcoming the challenges that were thrust upon them by the pandemic. Furthermore, 30 selected notable honorees were featured under each of the identified categories.