Reggie Candappa

Reggie Candappa
Born May 14, 1919(1919-05-14)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Occupation Founder Chairman Grant McCann Erickson
Spouse Therese Candappa(nee Senadheera)
Children Neela Marikkar
Sriyani Tindball
Website
Reggie Candappa Foundation for the Arts

Reggie Candappa (Reginald Sebastian Rodrigo Candappa) (Tamil: ரெஜி கந்தப்பா) is a Sri Lankan media personality and founder chairman of Sri Lanka's biggest advertising agency, Grant McCann Erickson.[1]

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Biography

Reggie was born in 1919 to father A.R. Candappa, a Colombo Chetty and mother Kalubowila Arachchige Dona Alice, a Sinhalese.

Reggie was given away by his father after the death of Dona Alice when the infant Reggie was just three months old on the grounds that the cause of her death was the infant according to his horoscope.[2]

Career

References

  1. ^ "REGINALD (REGGIE) SEBASTIAN RODRIGO CANDAPPA". RootsWeb. December 14, 2003. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/reggie.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-20. 
  2. ^ "Reggie Candappa: advertising life". Infolanka. http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/people/70.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-21. 

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