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INTEGRATED REPORT

Governance and risk management

Board of Directors and profiles

Prof A K W Jayawardane

Chairman

Appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors in March 2022.

Appointed as the Deputy Chairman in December 2020.

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director of the Commercial Bank in April 2015.

Chairman of the Board Related Party Transactions Review Committee, Board Nominations and Governance Committee, Board Human Resource and Remuneration Committee, Board Credit Committee and Board Strategy Development Committee since March 2022.

Skills and Experience:

He served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa for six years, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for six years and as an Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Moratuwa. He obtained a BSc Eng Degree in Civil Engineering with first class honours from the University of Moratuwa, a Master of Science Degree in Construction from the Loughborough University of Technology UK and a PhD in Construction Management from the same University.

He is also a Corporate Member, a Fellow and an International Professional Engineer of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL), CEng, FIE (SL), IntPE (SL), Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka, FNAS (SL), Founder Member of the Society of Structural Engineers Sri Lanka MSSE(SL), Fellow of the Institute of Project Managers, Sri Lanka, FIPM (SL), Life Member of Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science.

Graduate Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID).

Other current appointments:

Chairman of CBC Tech Solutions Ltd., Director of Sierra Cables PLC, Director of Mother Lanka Foundation, Council Member of National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka, Commission Member of University Grants Commission, Member of Board of Governance of Sir Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, Council Member of the National Institute of Education, and a member of the Stakeholder Engagement Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He is a Senior Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa.

Previous appointments:

Vice Chancellor of University of Moratuwa, Dean of the, Faculty of Engineering, First NDB Bank Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Moratuwa, President of the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL), Director General of National Science Foundation and a Board member of several other institutions.

Shareholding of Bank:

Hold 14,379 voting shares

Mr S Muhseen

Deputy Chairman

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in February 2021 and as the Deputy Chairman of the Bank in March 2022.

Appointed as the Chairman of Board Investment Committee and Board Technology Committee in March 2022. Appointed as the Chairman of Board Capital Expenditure Review Committee in February 2023.

Skills and Experience:

Mr Muhseen is a Senior Investment Banker with extensive experience in areas of Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets. He has served in a senior capacity working with company boards and senior leadership teams of financial institutions across Asia to help drive their Strategic Corporate Agenda and Roadmap. He is credited with leading research reports including reports on Banking sector efficiency, currency depreciation and budget deficit in his role as Head of Sri Lanka Banking Sector Research and Lead Economist at Jardine Flemming. He also worked at Standard Chartered Bank in the Corporate Banking Division, where he started out as a Management Trainee and at Rodman and Renshaw stock and commodities broker based in Chicago. In his Investment Banking career spanning over 20 years, Mr Muhseen has completed landmark mergers and capital raising transactions in excess of USD 100 Bn. The Asia FIG sectors team at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse has won the “FIG Asia House of the Year” awards from the Asset magazine for several years under his leadership. Multiple transactions he led have been awarded as best country deals and best financial sector capital raise transactions.

Mr Muhseen has experiences at the policy level working as a Team Leader at the National Council for Economic Development (NCED) under the Ministry of Finance as well as a Director at the Task Force to Rebuild the Nation (TAFREN), Presidential Task Force for rebuilding the economy after the 2004 Tsunami. He holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Colombo and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from Western Michigan University. He has completed the Corporate Finance training program with J P Morgan in New York and undertaken several programmes in effective board leadership from the Singapore Management University.

Other current appointments:

Chairman of CBC Finance Ltd., Chairman/Director of Platinum Advisors Pte Ltd., a Board member of H2O One Pte Ltd., Lankan Angel Network, Director of Gestetner Ceylon PLC and David Pieris Holding (Pvt) Ltd. He is the Deputy Chairman of Amana Takaful Life PLC and also an Independent/Non-Executive Director of PCCW Limited, Hongkong. He is also a Senior Advisor to Great Eastern Holding Ltd, Singapore.

Previous appointments:

He previously worked in best-in-class global investment banks, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J P Morgan in leading regional coverage roles. His most immediate previous role was as Managing Director, Head of South East Asia Financial Institutions Group (FIG) and Head of Asia Insurance at Credit Suisse based in Singapore. He was a Director of Merrill Lynch and an Associate Director of Deloitte. He has worked as a Senior Advisor to TPG and BNP Paribas.

Shareholding of Bank:

Holds 2,750 voting shares

Mr S C U Manatunge

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer

Appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank in May 2022.

Appointed as a Non-Independent/Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer in July 2018.

Skills and Experience:

Mr Manatunge joined the Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC in 1989. He has held Corporate Management/Senior Management positions such as Deputy General Manager – Corporate Banking, Chief Risk Officer, Head of Credit Risk and Chief Manager – Corporate Banking. Under Mr Manatunge, the Corporate Banking Division of the Bank experienced a rapid growth in the loan book and in areas such as Trade Finance fee-based income while maintaining the quality of advances. During his tenure as Chief Operating Officer, Mr Manatunge was heading strategically important business units of the Bank such as Personal Banking, Corporate Banking, Information Technology, Cards, and Digital Banking guiding them to become industry leaders. He has also given leadership and strategic inputs for transformational projects of the Bank such as “SME Transformation”, establishing a long term digital roadmap for the Bank and many projects to improve operational excellence.

He is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK (FCMA) and has obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura with a Merit Pass. He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Bankers – Sri Lanka (FIB), a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCMA), a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute – UK (FCMI) and a Member of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) – Australia. Mr Manatunge is also a Member of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors since August 2017.

He was adjudged the “Chief Information Security Officer of the Year” at the EC – Council Global CISO Forum held in Atlanta – USA in September 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution in strengthening and promoting information security practices and IT Risk Management. He was instrumental in forming the Association of Banking Sector Risk Professionals, Sri Lanka and was the President in the year 2014. He has also served as a Council Member of the Association of Professional Bankers (APB) and a member of the CIMA “Thought Leadership Committee”. Mr Manatunge was a visiting lecturer for the MBA Degree programme at the University of Colombo and was a resource person at the Training Centre of Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka.

Other current appointments:

Managing Director of Commercial Development Company PLC, Deputy Chairman of Commercial Bank of Maldives Private Limited, Vice Chairperson of Sri Lanka Banks Association (Guarantee) Ltd., and a Council Member of the Employer’s Federation of Ceylon. He is an Executive Member of The Council for Business with Britain. Mr Manatunge was elected as the Chairman of the Banking, Financial Services & Insurance Group of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon for year 2023/24. He also serves as a Director of Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka (CIBSL), and a Director of LankaPay (Pvt) Ltd.

Previous appointments:

Director of CBC Tech Solutions Ltd. and Director of Lanka Financial Services Bureau Ltd.

Shareholding of Bank:

Holds 118,599 voting shares

Mr L D Niyangoda

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in August 2016.

Skills and Experience:

He has a proven track record of over 40 years in the corporate environment and is qualified in various management fields both locally as well as internationally.

He holds Consultant, Business, and Administration experience for a period of 34 years and was appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director to the Board of Commercial Bank in August 2016.

Mr Niyangoda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Peradeniya. He was a member of numerous professional bodies, including the Council for Agricultural Research Policy of Sri Lanka, Standing Committee of Agriculture and Veterinary Studies, University Grants Commission and the Board of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.

He has been a member of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors since March 2000.

Other current appointments:

Chairman of A Baur & Co. (Pvt) Ltd., and counts 41 years of experience with the Company, and a Director of Alfred Baur Memorial (Guarantee) Limited.

Previous appointments:

He served as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of A Baur & Co. (Pvt) Ltd., Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer, A Baur & Co. (Pvt) Ltd., and a Director of Baur Asia (Pte) Ltd., Singapore.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil

Ms N T M S Cooray

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in September 2016.

Skills and experience:

She is a senior finance professional with wide experience in the private sector.

Ms Cooray Holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colombo and a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK (FCMA). She has been a member of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors since July 2006.

Other current appointments:

Chairman/Managing Director of Jetwing Travels (Pvt) Ltd., and Director, Jetwing Hotels Ltd.

Ms Cooray is a Non Independent/Non-Executive Director of Capital Alliance Holdings Limited. She also serves on the Board of CAL Investments Limited (Bangladesh) since August 2022 and a Non-Executive Director of Allianz Insurance Lanka Ltd.

Previous appointments:

She was the Former Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors and Jetwing Hotels Ltd., Director–Finance and Administration on the Board of J Walter Thompson, Trade Finance and Investments PLC, and served on the Boards of many other private and public companies. She was also a Member, Advisory Council for Tourism and a member of the Board of the Management of several other institutions.

Shareholding of Bank:

Holds 384,987 voting shares and 60,360 non-voting shares.

Ms J Lee

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in August 2020.

Appointed as the Chairperson of the Board Integrated Risk Management Committee in March 2022.

Skills and experience:

A pioneer and leading expert in quantitative risk management and its applications to strategy. She has over 30 years of experience as a banker, capital markets expert and partner in management consulting firms serving CEOs and Boards in US and Asia.

Ms Lee holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BSc from NYU Stern School of Business. She is co‐author of the books “What Every CEO Must Know About Risk” and “RAROC and Risk Management” and also attended the Women on Boards Programme at Harvard Business School. Since 2000, Ms Lee had been as an Adjunct Professor at Singapore Management University where she developed and taught Enterprise Risk Management for 10 years. She has also taught Risk Management at Columbia University, New York. Ms Lee has lived and worked in both New York and Asia.

Other current appointments:

Managing Director of Dragonfly LLC which she co-founded in 2000. The New York based consulting firm provides strategy, risk management and investment advice to Boards, CEOs, CFOs, Business heads in US, Europe and Asia, covering all sectors, corporates, financial institutions and governments. She is also CEO of Dragonfly Capital Ventures (DFC) which she founded in 2009. DFC develops and invests in renewable energy in South East Asia.

She currently serves on the Board of Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator (TLSA) and is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. She is on the Board of Overseers of NYU Stern School of Business, DBS Group Holdings Ltd, DBS Bank Ltd., DBS Foundation Ltd., SMRT Corporation Ltd., Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Limited and JTC Corporation. She is also the Non-Executive/Non-Independent Chairperson of Strides DST Pte Ltd., (a SMRT JV Company). She is an Independent Director of AlTi Tiedemann Global. Ms Lee is the Co-President and Director of Break Some Glass, Inc. (WomenExecs on Boards–an Alumni network of Harvard Business School of Women on Boards program). She is also a Director of SG HER Empowerment Ltd.

Previous appointments:

Ms Lee has served as Board Director of Solar Frontier, a renewable energy subsidiary of Japan-listed Showa Shell Sekiyu. Prior to Dragonfly, Ms Lee was a key member of the pioneering team that developed quantitative risk methodology at Bankers Trust in the late 1980s. She ran the Bank’s daily global risk quantification and reporting. She also worked on derivatives and other capital market products and was Risk Manager Reporting to the President for BT Securities.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil

Mr R Senanayake

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in September 2020.

Appointed as Chairman of Board Audit Committee in September 2020.

Skills and experience:

He is a Fellow member of CA Sri Lanka with over 30 years of post-qualifying experience and holds a B.Com. (Special) degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura with a second class upper division pass and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management from the PIM of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He completed his articles at Ernst & Young to qualify as a Chartered Accountant.

Mr Senanayake is passionate about and possesses extensive domain knowledge on the financial services industry, financial management and corporate reporting in particular, including such aspects as risk management, capital management, corporate governance, compliance, sustainability and integrated reporting. Besides many other local and overseas training programmes, he has undergone training on banking and finance with Euromoney and on general management with the National University of Singapore.

He works at Smart Media – The Annual Report Company as a Chief Officer since 2009.

Other Current appointments:

Mr Senanayake assumed the role of the Chairman at Senkadagala Finance PLC in August 2023. Prior to this position, he served as an Independent Non-Executive Director at the same organisation since April 2017. He is a Director of Virtual Capital Technologies (Pvt) Ltd., a software development company specialising in enterprise solutions within the real estate, retail, and telecom spaces catering to the New Zealand and the Australian markets since August 2017.

Previous appointments:

He served as an Independent/Non-Executive Director from October 2014 to March 2021 and as a Non-Independent/Non-Executive Director from April 2021 to June 2022 of CBC Finance Ltd. He joined Singer Industries (Ceylon) PLC in 1991 as the Financial Accountant. Held several key positions from Senior Manager Finance up to Assistant General Manager (Finance & Planning) from 1994 to 2007 at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer at the Nations Trust Bank PLC from 2007 to 2009.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil

Ms D L T S Wijewardena

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in March 2021.

Skills and experience:

She is a corporate executive with a proven track record in the IT industry both locally and internationally. She has been serving in various senior positions in the industry for many years gaining diverse experience in providing technology solutions from high tech startups to large multinational businesses in the world.

Ms Wijewardena is a Graduate member of British Computer Society. She gained her Board executive education at Harvard Business School, and also earned Strategy Certification for Game Changing Organisations and Artificial Intelligence in Impact for Business Strategies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. WIM together with IFC and Government of Australia awarded her as the best Woman Board Director 2021 (Sri Lanka/Maldives) at the WIM awards 2021 in Colombo.

Other current appointments:

Ms Wijewardena is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Aventude (Pvt) Ltd. (‘Aventude’) which she co-founded in 2018. She is a Director/Shareholder of Aventude Pte Ltd., Singapore. Aventude is a technology strategic consultation & solutions company based in Colombo, Stockholm and Singapore with the specialisation of expertise in solving business problems using technology in an end–to–end spectrum. She also serves on the Board of Meta Dynamics, UAE, a company intended to carry out advance technical services for Metaverse related development.

Previous appointments:

Vice Chairperson of the Cabinet approved national initiative, Women’s Chamber for Digital Sri Lanka (WCDSL), an initiative to uplift women participation in digital economy of Sri Lanka through ICT education, career empowerment and supportive policies.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil

Dr S Selliah

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in April 2022.

Skills and experience:

Dr Selliah holds a MBBS degree and Master’s Degree (M.Phil). He has over two decades of diverse experience in varied fields including Manufacturing, Healthcare, Insurance, Logistics, Packaging, Renewable Power, Plantation, Retail etc. He serves on the Boards of many public limited and private limited companies. He has extensive experience on serving on Board sub committees which include Audit, Human Resource and Remuneration, Investment, Strategic Planning, Related Party, Nomination, etc.

Other current appointments:

Deputy Chairman of Asiri Hospital Holdings PLC, Asiri Surgical Hospital PLC and Central Hospitals Private Ltd. He is also a Director of Lanka Tiles PLC, Lanka Walltiles PLC, ACL Cables PLC and Swisstek (Ceylon) PLC. In addition, Dr Selliah is also the Chairman of JAT Holdings PLC, Vydexa (Lanka) Power Corporation (Pvt) Ltd., and Cleanco Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. He has also served on many other Boards in the past. Currently, he also serves on the many Board Sub Committees of some of the companies listed above as the Chairman or a member.

Previous appointments:

He was a Director of Expo Lanka Holdings PLC, Horana Plantation PLC, Unidil Packaging (Pvt) Ltd. He also served as a Director of Lanka Ceramic PLC, Director of Softlogic Holdings PLC, Odel PLC, Swisstek Aluminium (Pvt) Ltd., and HNB Assurance PLC. He has served as a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya for many years in the past and served on several committees. He has also been the Head of the Department of Physiology for many years during his tenure at the Faculty. He has also served as a Council Member at the University of Colombo.

Shareholding of Bank:

Holds 28,759 voting shares.

Mr S Prabagar

Chief Operating Officer/Executive Director

Appointed as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director in May 2022.

Skills and Experience:

Mr Prabagar is a senior banker with over 28 years of diversified banking experience with the Bank. He has served as branch manager of mid-sized and larger branches in Colombo, performed as Chief Operating Officer and Country Manager of the Bank’s Bangladesh Operations, provided leadership to Internal Audit function of the Bank as the Head and Assistant General Manager, spearheaded the Bank operations as the Assistant General Manager in charge of Operations and lead Corporate Banking as the Deputy General Manager, which was the last position held by him before taking up this responsibility.

Having turned around the branches he managed to greater performance, he contributed and was instrumental in bringing up Bangladesh Operations from a two branch two booth operations to that of a 19 branch operations, 3rd highest profitable bank next only to SCB and HSBC out of 10 foreign banks, which also contributed to around 15% of the overall bottom line of Commercial Bank. Under his leadership, operations in Bangladesh earned AAA credit rating by the leading credit rating agency CRISL.

He represented the Bank at National Payment Council meetings at CBSL. He also functioned as the Bank’s Ombudsman in resolving customer complaints with Financial Ombudsman of the country. He was the representative of the Bank to BTAC (Bankers Technical Assistance Committee) appointed by Bankers Association of Sri Lanka, to take up operational issues faced by banks.

He served in the panel of lecturers to the Post Graduate Diploma in Bank Management offered by Institute of Bankers (IBSL) and carried out lectures over 4 years. He was a Secretary to Bangladesh-Sri Lanka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, actively promoting trade and investment between the countries.

Mr Prabagar holds an MBA in Banking from University of London, an Associate of Institute of Bankers (AIB - SL), and B.Com from Bharathidasan University in India.

He is fully qualified in CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants – UK), and CISA (Certified in System Audit – USA), also holding a Diploma in System Security and Control Audit (DISSCA – CASL).

Other current appointments:

Non-Independent/Non-Executive Director of the Board of Commercial Bank of Maldives Private Limited, Director of CBC Myanmar Microfinance Company Ltd., and a Director of Lanka Financial Services Bureau (Pvt) Ltd.

Previous appointments:

Non-Executive Director at the Board of CBC Tech Solutions Limited, He has also served as the Chairman of Roadmap Committee appointed by the Central Bank (CBSL) on implementation of Blockchain technology in Sri Lanka.

Shareholding of Bank:

Holds 251,136 voting shares and 26,290 non-voting shares.

Mr D N L Fernando

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in February 2023.

Skills and experience:

Mr Fernando is a Professional Banker, who retired from active service in the banking sector in August 2020. with a career spanning over 33 years at the Bank of Ceylon (BoC), he has played many prominent roles in the Recoveries Department and the Product Development Banking Unit where he had initiated a number of noteworthy innovative liability and asset products.

He has vast experience in branch banking, customer service and Corporate/Retail credit in rural and urban branches for over 14 years and training/exposure in international and treasury operations, which he gained during his service at the BoC, London Branch and as a member of expatriate staff at the BoC, Karachi Branch (now closed) in Pakistan. He has also managed 70 BoC branches for 4 years as the Assistant General Manager in charge of the Western Province South (Largest Administrative Region of BoC then), before taking up the assignment at BoC (UK) Ltd. as the CEO/Director in late 2012.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hon.) degree from the University of Colombo and served briefly in the Academic Staff of the (then) Batticaloa University College and, under the Ministry of Education as an Education Officer in “Sri Lanka Education Service”, before joining the Bank of Ceylon in 1986.

An Associate Member of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka since 1998.

Other current appointments:

General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Grand Oriental Hotel (GOH).

Previous appointments:

General Manager of CeyBank Holiday Homes (Pvt) Ltd., a subsidiary of BOC Travels (Pvt) Ltd. and Property Development and Management (Pvt) Ltd.

Chief Risk Officer (Deputy General Manager) of BOC, (which he held for more than four and a half years until his retirement in August 2020) and the Chief Executive Officer/ Director of Bank of Ceylon (UK) Ltd.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil

Mr P M Kumarasinghe

Director

Appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director in April 2023.

Skills and experience:

Mr Palitha Kumarasinghe is a Senior President’s Counsel specialised in Civil and Commercial matters with lucrative practice. Mr Kumarasinghe enrolled as an Attorney at Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in September 1982 and was appointed as a President’s Counsel by His Excellency the President with effect from July 07, 2006.

Mr Kumarasinghe is in active practice in the District Court of Colombo, Commercial High Court, Civil Appellate High Court of Colombo and the Superior Courts. He is the Counsel for several State and Private Banks and Finance Houses. He has very wide experience in Debt Recovery matters and is a regular Speaker in Banking and Debt Recovery Law Sessions and many other Corporate Law matters in National Law Conferences, Junior National Law Conferences, Continuing Legal Education Programmes conducted by the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, the Association of Corporate Lawyers, Sri Lanka and the Colombo Law Society.

He has been a member of the Bar Council of Sri Lanka for the past 36 years.

Other current appointments:

Mr Kumarasinghe is a member of the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka, a Member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Legal Studies of the University Grants Commission. He is also the Chairman of the Rent Law Reform Committee, the Chairman of the Banking and Finance Law Reform Committee, and the Co-Chair of the Apartment Ownership Law Reform Committee, Ministry of Justice, and a member of the Expert Committee to draft a Higher Education Act appointed by Hon. Minister of Justice. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.

Previous appointments:

Mr Kumarasinghe was a member of Public Service Commission of Sri Lanka from April 2006 to April 2009 and from May 2011 to May 2014. He was a member of the Incorporated Council of Legal Education, the Chairman, Environmental Council established under the National Environment Act, a member of the Advisory Commission on Intellectual Property established under the Code of Intellectual Property Act, the Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers and the Public Service Commission to study the existing Medical Service Minute and propose solutions to the problems existing in the Medical Administration Grade. Mr Kumarasinghe served as an Independent/ Non-Executive Director of Laugfs Gas PLC and Nawaloka Hospitals PLC.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil

Mr R A P Rajapaksha

Company Secretary

Appointed as Company Secretary in April 2019.

Skills and experience:

An Associate of Chartered Governance Institute – UK & Ireland, formerly known as Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA – UK) and a Graduate of the Institute of Chartered Corporate Secretaries (ICCS) of Sri Lanka counting over 20 years of experience in the field of Company Secretarial Practice including 13 years of experience at the Bank. He is a member of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors since September 2017.

Other current appointments:

Vice President of the Chartered Governance Institute – UK & Ireland, Sri Lanka & Asia Pacific Branch. Appointed as an All-Island Justice of the Peace in 2019.

Previous appointments:

Company Secretary of CBC Finance Ltd. from November 2014 to March 2019. Assistant Company Secretary of the Bank from February 2011 to March 2019.

Shareholding of Bank:

Nil