Name: Prasantha Jayamanna
Company: DPJ Holdings
Primary Industry: Diversified
Profession: Chairman/CEO
Age: 36 years

Business: Label manufacturing and processing, Automation products selling, Software solutions development, Pharmaceuticals, Convenience Shop Chain and leisure boutique hotels.

Professional Background: Doctor of Business Administration (School of Management - AIT) Master of Business Administration (University of Western Sydney- Australia)

Professional awards:

TOYP 2009 - Outstanding Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Sri Lanka Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 - National Award

Sri Lanka Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 - Provincial Award

COYLE National Award for Outstanding Performance

National Business Excellence Award 2010 - ICT Service Sector

Sri Lanka Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 - Provincial Award

Background: Started his business career from ground level in 1999. Performed well at every company he worked for. Learned the ropes of business. Built contacts with top businessmen in the industry. These experiences helped him to build his own company.

Youngest player to score a World Cup goal

To play in the World Cup is to have the eyes of the entire nation (unless you play for the US team) and then the world upon you. While it’s almost certainly a ton of pressure, it’s also an amazing venue for any professional soccer player to bring pride to his country of origin. Even so, some of the best players in the world have trouble scoring goals in the World Cup despite years of success on club teams.

While young players are not uncommon on national teams, they rarely end up contributing goals during their inaugural World Cup appearances.

This wasn’t the case for Pelé, perhaps the most successful World Cup participant of all time. At the age of 17, Pelé netted his very first World Cup goal for Brazil against Wales during the 1958 games. Pelé and the rest of the Brazilian team went on to win the entire tournament, bringing Brazil the first of its many subsequent World Cup victories.

Jessica Watson:

Youngest person to sail around the world

Sailing is really annoying because that stupid boom keeps swinging around with every slight change in the wind, threatening to hit you in the head and send you straight into the water while you are busy trying to reach whatever destination you have set out for that would probably have been best reached via motorboat.

So it’s pretty much inconceivable that Jessica Waton, a 16 year old from Australia was able to sail around the world unassisted. Imagine how many times she must have had to avoid that boom! Watson had been planning to complete a solo non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the globe since at least early 2008. Officially announced in May 2009, the journey was expected to take eight months with an approximate distance of 23,000 nautical miles.

As the plan was to sail non-stop and unassisted, during the journey no other person would be allowed to give her anything and she must not moor to any port or other boat, although advice over radio communication was allowed. Watson’s circumnavigation route planned to start and end at Sydney and passed near New Zealand, Fiji, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin, South East Cape.

In accordance with the definitions set out by the International Sailing Federation World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) for circumnavigations, the equator must be crossed; this was done near Kiritimati. Watson arrived back in Sydney Harbour at 1.53 pm, Saturday 15 May 2010. The Harbour Master, Captain Steven Young, blew into a party whistle to signal Jessica’s official arrival back home.

Jordan Romero:

Youngest person to scale Mount Everest

Mount Everest is often used as a euphemism for a nearly insurmountable task. Although it has actually been conquered by more than 4,000 climbers since it was first climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary, it remains a dangerous and challenging trek best left to expert climbers - or awesome 13 year olds. Jordan Romero, of Big Bear, California, became the youngest person to scale Mount Everest when he and his team reached the summit in May 2010.

Romero and his team tackled the mountain from the Tibetan side, clawing their way the 29,035 feet to the top. Romero's feat was accomplished on the same day that Nepali climber Apa Sherpa made his way to the top of Everest for the 20th time, the most successful climbs up the mountain in history, which makes him the youngest man to ever scale Everest the most amount of times.