Mr R.T. Weerasinghe
| Mr. R. T. Weerasinghe was appointed to the Board in April 2009. He joined Darley Butler & Company Ltd, in the year 1994 as a Trainee Product Manager and was seconded to Lankem Ceylon PLC as the Marketing Manager of the Consumer Division in 1998. He was promoted as General Manager of the Consumer Division in 2005 and was also appointed as General Manager of the Paints Division. In addition he was appointed as the Head of the Industrial Chemicals Division in 2009. Mr. Weerasinghe possess expertise in the fields of Marketing and Management. Mr. Weerasinghe also serves on the Boards of certain subsidiaries of Lankem Ceylon PLC. |
Mr A.R. Peiris
| Mr. A. R. Peiris was appointed to the Board in the year 2007. He has served the Petroleum Corporation for 10 years in Technical, Planning & Finance Divisions and at the time he left the Corporation in 1979, he was the Head of the Refinery Finance Division. Thereafter, he joined National Development Bank PLC where he held several senior positions for 24 years. He has held Directorships in several reputed public listed and unlisted companies. Mr. Peiris also holds Directorships in several companies within the Lankem Group. He is also a member of the Board of Tess Agro PLC and functions as the Chairman of its Audit Committee. |
Mr K.P. David
| Mr. K. P. David was appointed to the Board in 2007. Having commenced his career in the Banking sector, he joined the Parent Company E. B. Creasy & Company PLC as Group Accountant in 1993. He also serves on the Boards of several subsidiaries of the Lankem Group |
Mr D.L. Vitharana
| Mr. D. L. Vitharana was appointed to the Board in 2005. He joined Lankem Ceylon PLC in 1997 and has headed the Lankem Agro Cluster since 1999. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Lankem Ceylon PLC and also serves on the Boards of several subsidiaries of the Lankem Group |
Mr T.M.A. Jayasinghe
| A versatile businessman engaged in Tea Export Trade. He has also other business interested in the Import and Export trade. |
Mr T.M.A Jayasinghe
| A versatile businessman engaged in Tea Export Trade. He has also other business interested in the Import and Export trade. |
Mr J.K.N.C. Perera
| A leading businessman and has Diploma in Agriculture. He manages several business enterprises and involve in social work. |
Mr C.J. Wijesekera
| Board Member of Lanka Cement PLC |
Mr L.W. Abeynayake
| Board Member of Lanka Cement PLC |
Mr W. J. Handapangoda
| Board Member of Lanka Cement PLC |
Mr N.S.M Samsudeen
| A reputed civil Criminal lawyer practicing in Hambantota Courts. He is the Chairman of Colombo Commercial Fertilizer Ltd and Sri Lanka Cement Corporation. He was instrumental in uplifting the Commercial Fertilizer Ltd into a profit generating, enterprise within 5 years of assuming duties |
Mr M.I. Wahid Abdul
| Mr. M. Imtiaz Abdul Wahid is the Managing Director and Deputy CEO of Cargills (Ceylon) PLC. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK). He has been involved in the operations of Cargills (Ceylon) PLC in an executive capacity at different intervals progressively at higher levels (appointed Director 1997 and Deputy Managing Director in 2001) spanning a period of 27 years, leaving the services of the Company for employment abroad on two occasions in between whereby he also gained valuable exposure holding a number of senior management positions in overseas companies |
Mr V.R Page
| Mr. Ranjit Page is the Deputy Chairman of Cargills Quality Foods Ltd. (CQF, parent company of KHP), Deputy Chairman and CEO of Cargills (Ceylon) PLC (holding company of CQF) and Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of C T Holdings PLC (holding company of Cargills (Ceylon) PLC). He possesses over 30 years of management experience with expertise in food retailing, food service, and manufacturing, having introduced the concept of supermarketing to the Sri Lankan masses. He also serves on the Boards of several other companies |
Mr S. Young
| Mr. Stuart Young had a 37 year career with the Nestle Group where he held senior management positions in sales, marketing and general management, spanning the four continents of Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa, before becoming Managing Director and CEO of Nestle Lanka in November 2002, from which position he retired in October 2008. He is well known in Sri Lanka where he spends time as an independent business consultant. Mr. Young was appointed Chairman/Director of Kotmale Holdings PLC on 5 January 2011 and is also Chairman/Director of a number of public and private companies within the Cargills Group. |
Mr S.T Nagendra
| Mr. Nagendra was appointed to the Board of Lanka Aluminium Industries PLC in October 1990 and currently holds the office of Non-Executive Chairman. He was formerly Chairman of the James Finlay Group, the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon and the British Business Association. He has served on the committees of the Planter’s Association of Ceylon and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He was Chairman and Director of several private and public quoted companies. He now serves on the boards of a few companies |
Mr P.S.R. Casie Chitty
| Mr. R. Casie Chitty joined the board as an independent non executive director in 2009. He is a independent non executive director of Ceylon Printers PLC, Paragon Ceylon PLC, Kalamazoo Systems PLC and Office Equipment PLC. Mr. Casie Chitty who holds a Master in Economics from the University of Colombo is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK, an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (CIMA), UK, and a Chartered Financial Analyst, USA. |
Mr P.S.R Casie Chitty
| Mr. R. Casie Chitty joined the board as an independent non executive director in 2009. He is a independent non executive director of Ceylon Printers PLC, Paragon Ceylon PLC, Kalamazoo Systems PLC and Office Equipment PLC. Mr. Casie Chitty who holds a Master in Economics from the University of Colombo is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK, an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (CIMA), UK, and a Chartered Financial Analyst, USA. |
Mr W.N.S Canagaratna
| A journalist by profession, he began his career in the Times of Ceylon in 1954, later joining the Information Services of the British High Commission in Sri Lanka to edit the BHC’s fortnightly publication, British Bulletin. After joining the Ceylon Printers Group in 1967, he was also the Sri Lanka correspondent for The Statesman of Calcutta and Delhi for 10 years. He still maintains his links with journalism in Sri Lanka. Mr. Canagaratna became a Director of Ceylon Printers PLC, Paragon Ceylon PLC, Kalamazoo Systems PLC, Kalamazoo Industries (Pvt) Ltd, Office Equipment PLC and International Computers (Ceylon) Ltd in 1984 and became the Executive Chairman and Managing Director of the Group in 1991. Mr. Canagaratna is responsible for all policy decisions relating to the day-to-day operations of all companies in the Group. |
Mr L.N. De S Wijeyeratne
| Appointed to the Board of Kelani Valley Plantations PLC in July 2013.Fellow of the Institute of Charted Accounts in Sri Lanka and counts over thirty-five years of experience in Finance and General Managment both in Sri Lanka and overseas. Former Group Finance Director of Richard Pieris PLC from January 1997 to June 2008 and also held senior managment positions at Aitken Spence & Company,Brooke Bonds Ceylon and Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd.,Serves as a member of Quality Assurance Board of the Institute of Charted Accounts and a former member of the Sri Lankan Accounting Standards Monitoring Board.Presently an Independant Director of sseveral listed and unlisted companies |
Mr C.V. Cabraal
| Appointed to the Board in January 2013.A Graduate(with Honors)in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri Science and Technology in 2010. Served as an Engineer working with the Energy and Environment Division of Brandix Lanka Ltd. Main functions include analysis of new equipment for the factories ,renewable energy projects,solid waste managment and sustainability reporting. Upon his returning to Sri Lanka in 2010 worked as a managment trainee with keells Hotel Managment Services till 2011 in the Projects and Engineering Department. |