Reggie Candappa

Reggie Candappa

Infobox Celebrity
name = Reggie Candappa


birth_date = birth date|1919|05|14|mf=y
birth_place = Colombo, Sri Lanka
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = Founder Chairman Grant McCann Erickson
salary =
networth =
spouse = Therese Candappa(nee Senadheera)
children = Neela Marikkar
Sriyani Tindball
website = [http://www.rcfoundation.lk/ Reggie Candappa Foundation for the Arts]
caption =
footnotes =

Reggie Candappa ( Reginald Sebastian Rodrigo Candappa ) is a legendary Sri Lankan media personality and founder chairman of Sri Lanka's biggest advertising agency, Grant McCann Erickson.cite web | url= http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/reggie.htm | title=REGINALD (REGGIE) SEBASTIAN RODRIGO CANDAPPA | date= December 14, 2003 | publisher= RootsWeb|accessdate=2008-03-20]

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.cite web | url= http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/people/70.htm| title=Reggie Candappa: advertising life| date= | publisher= Infolanka|accessdate=2008-03-21]

Career

References

External links

* [http://www.rcfoundation.lk/ Reggie Candappa Foundation for the Arts]

* [http://lakdiva.org/suntimes/061224/FinancialTimes/ft320.html Success at third Reggie Candappa Awards]

* [http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/people/70.htm Reggie Candappa: advertising life]

* [http://www.island.lk/2004/03/11/opinio07.html Remembering Reggie Candappa]

* [http://www.sundaytimes.lk/031207/news/4.htm Advertising giant Reggie dies]

* [http://www.sjmsassociates.lk/resources/newsletter/SJMS%20QT%20Newsletter%20(late%202006).pdf In the foot steps of the legendary god father...]


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