| Mr Israel Paulraj
| Board member of Carson Cumberbatch PLC |
| Mr Manoharan Selvanathan
| Board member of Carson Cumberbatch PLC |
| Mr H Selvanathan
| Vice chairman of Carson Cumberbatch PLC |
| Mr Tilak De Zoysa
| Chairman of Carson Cumberbatch PLC. Mr. Tilak de Zoysa,also known as Deshabandu, FCMI, ( UK ), FPRI (SL) served as the Managing Director of Associated Motorways (Private) Limited (formerly, Associated Motorways Ltd.) since 1993. Mr. de Zoysa serves as Chairman of HelpAge Sri Lanka. He serves as Chairman of Carson Cumberbatch PLC. He has been the Chairman of Bansei Royal Resorts Hikkaduwa Limited since June 20, 2014. He served as Deputy Chairman of Associated Motorways (Private) Limited since 1993. He is a Non-Executive Director of Taj Lanka Hotels Limited, Lanka Walltiles (Pvt) Ltd and Nawaloka Hospitals PLC. Mr. de Zoysa serves as a Director of Lanka Walltile PLC (Lanka Wall Tiles). He has been a Non Executive Director at John Keells PLC since July 2005. He served as a Director of Associated Motorways (Private) Limited since 1980. Mr. de Zoysa served as Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka, Plastics & Rubber Institute and several Trade Organizations, Bilateral Business Councils and Friendship Societies. He served as Trustee of the Employers' Federation of Ceylon. He is a Member of the Monetary Board (of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka). Mr. de Zoysa has been the Honorary Consul for Croatia in Sri Lanka since 1999 and is the recipient of “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon“ from the Emperor of Japan. He studied CMA. |
| Mr S.H Amarasekera
| Mr. Harsha Amarasekera, President’s Counsel has a wide practice in the Original Courts as well as in the Appellate Courts. He enriches the Board with his extensive knowledge is his areas of specialization - Commercial Law, Business Law, Securities Law, Banking Law and Intellectual Property Law. He serves as an Independent Director in several listed companies in the Colombo Stock Exchange including CIC Holdings PLC, Expo Lanka Holdings PLC, Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC, Keells Food Products PLC, Amaya Leisure PLC & Vallibel Power Erathna PLC. He is also a Director of Amana Bank Ltd. and CIC Agri Business Private Limited. |
| Mr R.N. Asirwatham
| Mr. Rajan Asirwatham is a senior corporate personality who served as Senior Partner and Country Head of KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton & Company from 2001 to 2008. He brings with him decades of high level exposure to the financial and regulatory framework of Sri Lanka. At present, he serves as the Chairman of the Financial Services Stability Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He is also a member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Advisory Council, a member of the Council of the University of Colombo and also serves in the Board of Management Post Graduate Institute of Medicine. He has previously served as the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Tourism Project funded by the World Bank, The Ministry of Tourism and as a member of the Presidential Commission on Taxation, appointed by His Excellency the President. His expertise has seen him serving on the Boards of many companies, which currently include Royal Ceramics Lanka PLC, Ceylon Tea Services PLC, CIC Holdings PLC, Brown & Company PLC, Aitken Spence PLC, Aitken Spence Hotels PLC, Dial Tex Industries Private Limited, Renuka Hotels Private Limited, Rajawella Holdings Private Limited, Mercantile Merchant Bank, Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC, Colombo Pharmacy PLC, Peninsular Properties (Pvt) Ltd and Yaal Hotels Private Limited. Mr. Asirwatham is a fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. |
| Ms K. Fernando
| Ms. Kimarli Fernando brings to the Board her in depth experience in both banking and law. She has read for her LLB (Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK and is a Barristerat- Law, Lincoln’s Inn, UK. (1987) and an Attorney-at-Law, Sri Lanka. She currently serves as a Director of L B Finance PLC, National Development Bank PLC, Delmege Limited and Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority. Previously, her Banking career spanning 23 years has included stints in senior positions at Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC, Standard Chartered Bank, Sri Lanka and Deutsche Bank AG, Sri Lanka. |
| Mr J.A.S.S Adhihetty
| Mr. Adhihetty infuses the Board with over 32 years of exposure to the finance sector and introduces fresh perspectives on successful marketing and management within the industry. At present, he serves on the Boards of Vallibel Finance PLC and Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC. He is also the Managing Director of L B Finance PLC and The Fortress Resorts PLC. He was formerly the Deputy Managing Director of Mercantile Investments Limited and has served as a Director of Nuwara Eliya Hotels Company Limited, Grand Hotel (Pvt) Limited, Royal Palm Beach Hotels Limited, Tangerine Tours Limited and Security Ceylon (Pvt) Limited. |
| Mr S H Amarasekera
| Mr. Harsha Amarasekera, President’s Counsel has a wide practice in the Original Courts as well as in the Appellate Courts. He enriches the Board with his extensive knowledge is his areas of specialization - Commercial Law, Business Law, Securities Law, Banking Law and Intellectual Property Law. He serves as an Independent Director in several listed companies in the Colombo Stock Exchange including CIC Holdings PLC, Expo Lanka Holdings PLC, Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC, Keells Food Products PLC, Amaya Leisure PLC & Vallibel Power Erathna PLC. He is also a Director of Amana Bank Ltd. and CIC Agri Business Private Limited. |
| Mr W.D.N.H Perera
| A senior corporate leader, Mr. Nimal Perera is a multifaceted personality who imbues the Board with his extensive expertise in Finance, Capital Market Operations, Manufacturing, Marketing and Management services. He currently serves as the Chairman of Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC and as the Managing Director of Royal Ceramics Lanka PLC. He also serves on the Boards of Amaya Leisure PLC, Hayleys PLC, The Kingsbury PLC, Vallibel Finance PLC, LB Finance PLC, Haycarb PLC, Thalawakele Tea Estates PLC, Lanka Floortiles PLC, Lanka Walltiles PLC, Lanka Ceramic PLC and Horana Plantations PLC. He is also the Alternate Director of Vallibel Power Erathna PLC and The Fortress Resorts PLC. Mr. Perera is a member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and has over three decades of exposure to the Sri Lankan corporate sector |
| Mr K.D.D Perera
| Mr. Dhammika Perera is the quintessential business leader, with interests in a variety of key industries including Hydropower generation, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Entertainment, Banking and Finance. He enriches the Board with over 25 years of experience in building formidable businesses through unmatched strategic foresight. He currently holds the position of Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Sri Lanka. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Strategic Enterprise Management Agency (SEMA). Mr. Perera is the Chairman of Sampath Bank PLC, Vallibel Finance PLC, Vallibel Power Erathna PLC, The Fortress Resorts PLC, The Queensbury Leisure Ltd and Delmege Limited. He is the Deputy Chairman of Hayleys PLC, Royal Ceramics Lanka PLC, Horana Plantations PLC, Lanka Ceramic PLC and LB Finance PLC. He also serves on the Boards of Amaya Leisure PLC, Haycarb PLC, Hayleys MGT Knitting Mills PLC, The Kingsbury PLC, Dipped Products PLC, Lanka Floortiles PLC and Orit Apparels Lanka (Pvt) Limited. |
| Mr N. Fonseka
| Board Member Of John Keells Holdings |
| Mr A. Cabraal
| Board Member of John Keells Holdings |
| Mr A. Omar
| Ashroff Omar is a Director of Phoenix Ventures Limited, Chief Executive Officer of Brandix Lanka Ltd and serves as Director on many of its subsidiary companies. He was the founder Chairman of The Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) and former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association. He serves as a Director of the Sri Lanka institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC), Board of Directors of the United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission and Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Garments - Export Development Board (EDB). He is the Hon. Consul General of the Republic of Finland, a Chartered Member of The Textile Institute International, United Kingdom and a Senior Member of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Connecticut, USA. |
| Mr A.R. Gunasekara
| Ranjit Gunasekara was appointed to the Board in July 2011. A chartered accountant by profession, his career includes a spell of seventeen years overseas where he worked for seven years with Coopers & Lybrand in Zambia and Botswana before leaving as an Audit Senior Manager. He then joined the Lloyd’s Insurance Broking Group, Minet, as Financial Controller of its Botswana operations before transferring to Minet’s head office in London where he served as Financial Controller/ Executive Director of Minet International Holdings. On returning to Sri Lanka in 1994, he joined NDB, and retired as its Chief Financial Officer in 2004. He has served on the boards of NDB and several of its group companies and on the city hotel subsidiaries of the John Keells Group. |
| Mr T. Das
| Tarun Das has spent his professional career in the development and promotion of Indian Industry. Starting in November 1963 with the predecessor body of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) he was the Director General and Chief Executive of CII from April 1967 to May 2004 and Chief Mentor from June 2004 to October 2009. His leadership of the organisation over three decades has led to strengthening business and strategic ties between India and the world. He is Member, Council of IITs, Ministry of Human Resources Development; Member, Kerala State Planning Board, Kerala Government; Member, Indo- UK Round Table, Ministry of External Affairs; Member, Advisory Group, Expert Committee on Prasar Bharati. He is the Founding Trustee, Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW);Vice President and Treasurer, World Wildlife Fund- India (WWF); Member, Board of Trustees, Public Interest Foundation (PIF); Trustee, Sasakawa India Leprosy Foundation (SILF); Member, Board of Governors, Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong; Member, Board of Governors, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER); Member, Executive Committee of the Board, ICRIER; Member, Apex Council on India@75, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); Trustee, India@75 Foundation; Member, Singapore India Partnership Foundation (SIPF); Founding Trustee, Aspen Institute India; Lifetime Trustee, The Aspen Institute, USA; Member, Board of Governors, East West Center. He is the Co-Chair of the US – India Strategic Dialogue; Co-Chair, Indo-US-Japan Strategic Dialogue; Co-Chair, India- Israel Forum; Member, India- Singapore Strategic Dialogue; Member, India-China Strategic Dialogue; Member, India- Turkey Forum. He is Member, International Advisory Board of ACE Insurance(USA); Member, India Advisory Board of VOITH (Germany); Member, India Advisory Board, JCB (UK). Board of Directors |
| Mr I. Coomaraswamy
| Dr Indrajit Coomaraswamy was appointed to the John Keells Holdings PLC Board in February 2011. He was an official in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka from 1974-1989. He worked in the Economic Research, Statistics and Bank Supervision Divisions. During this time he was also seconded to the Ministry of Finance and Planning (1981-89). He was employed by the Commonwealth Secretariat from 1990-2008. During that time he held the positions, inter alia, of Director, Economic Affairs Division and Deputy-Director, Secretary- General’s Office. He was subsequently Interim Director, Social Transformation Programme Division, Commonwealth Secretariat (Jan- July 2010). He completed his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University and obtained his Doctorate at the University of Sussex |
| Mr E.F.G. Amerasinghe
| Appointed to the Board during 1999/2000, Franklyn Amerasinghe is the former CEO and Director General of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon. He was thereafter attached to the International Labour Organisation as a senior specialist in the social dialogue sector in charge of Employer’s Organisations in East Asia up to October 2002. A Bachelor of Law and a lawyer by profession, he is currently a consultant and trainer in social dialogue, human resource management, corporate social responsibility and industrial relations, both in Sri Lanka and abroad. He has also authored books on a wide range of subjects and published papers in some international and local journals. He is a Founder Trustee of the Association for Dialogue & Conflict Resolution. He was also one of the Founder Directors of the Skills Development Fund. |
| Mr J.R.F. Peiris
| Appointed to the John Keells Holdings PLC Board in May 2003, Ronnie Peiris has overall responsibility for the Group’s Finance and Accounting including Taxation, the Information Technology, Corporate Finance and Treasury functions and Group Initiatives. He was previously the Managing Director of Anglo American Corporation (Central Africa) Limited in Zambia. Ronnie has over 40 years of finance and general management experience in Sri Lanka and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK; Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK and the Society of Certified Management Accountants, Sri Lanka and holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a member of the committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of its Taxation Sub Committee and also serves on its Economic, Fiscal and Policy Planning Sub Committee. He is a Director of several companies in the John Keells Group and the outgoing President of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors. |
| Mr A.D. Gunawardene
| Ajit Gunewardene is the Deputy Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC and has been a member of the Board for over 20 years. He is a Director of many companies in the John Keells Group and is the Chairman of Union Assurance PLC. He is a member of the board of SLINTEC, a company established for the development of nanotechnology in Sri Lanka under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has also served as the Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange. Ajit has a degree in Economics and brings over 31 years of management experience. |
