Dilash Krishnapillai is a leading project management expert who works with private and public sector organizations to build Project Management Offices (PMO), project delivery frameworks including various agile models that will effectively transform the organizational mission to tangible results. Krishnapillai believes that organizations need nimble processes that can quickly adapt to change to thrive and innovate in the contemporary information age.

He is currently employed as the Director for Delivery Services at a multi-national organization in the financial industry, where he has the accountability for the delivery of all strategic, client driven and regulatory projects. He is also a Professor and faculty member at Humber College teaching post graduate project management program for the past ten years and assists organizations in the development of project management course material; he has developed a number of courses for the program including the momentous Strategic Portfolio Management and IT Project Management streams with the focus on adaptive methodology.

Krishnapillai is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Business Administration at Royal Roads University and his research investigates how “agile” frameworks used in selective technology projects can be transformed into enterprise-wide management practices that could be an alternative to the traditional hierarchy based managed structures currently in-place. This management research will contribute not only to the development of lean organizational structures, but also to respond to the changes in the internal and external eco-systems promptly.

Krishnapillai graduated with a Computer Engineering degree from University of Ottawa. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario (P.Eng.) a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP) and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). He also holds a Bachelors of Education (B.Ed.) degree specializing in Adult Education from Brock University and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) – Executive Management from Royal Roads University; in addition, he is also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC®).