Mr. Nagahawatte holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) Degree and a Master of Laws Degree. He has been an Examiner and a Visiting Lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo. Immediately before accepting appointment as Chairman of the National Development Bank PLC in January 2008, he was the Senior Legal and Banking Advisor of the Ministry of Finance and Planning.

Mr. Nagahawatte is a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and functioned at various times as Chief Executive Officer and as Chairman of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank in the absence of the Governor. He has held several senior positions, including those of Controller of Exchange and Executive Director during a nearly 38-year career with the Central Bank.

Mr. Nagahawatte had been the Chairman of Bank Supervisors in the SEANZA Group of Countries, comprising banking regulators from countries in South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He had also been associated with the establishment of the South East Asian Central Banks' Research and Training Centre in Malaysia as a Legal Entity, and with the preparation of the Constitution and By Laws of the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association in Thailand.

Mr. Nagahawatte had been the Chairman of the Bank of Ceylon and of the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka, a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, a Member of the Insurance Board of Sri Lanka and a Director of the National Development Bank of Sri Lanka. He has also been Chairman/Director of several companies.

Mr Russell De Mel is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, U.K., has served NDB Bank for nearly 30 years, largely in the field of Corporate Banking.
Prior to assuming duties as the Chief Executive Officer, he functioned as the Vice President - Corporate Banking Group. He also served as the Vice President of NDB Bank’s Group Risk Management Department.
Mr. De Mel is a Director of several NDB Group Companies. His experience ranges from, Project Financing, Infrastructure Financing, Merchant Banking, Corporate Planning and Management Information etc. to name a few.

Mr Amarasuriya brings to NDB Bank an impressive range of management, industrial marketing and business skills from his tenure as Chairman of the industrial and retailing conglomerate Singer Group, and his experience on the Boards of such companies as Regnis Lanka and Bata Shoe Company of Ceylon. He also brings with him substantial experience in international management as a Senior Vice President of Singer Asia Limited and Retail Holdings Limited, USA.

Richard Vokes is an economist by training with over 30 years experience working on development in Asia. He joined the Asian Development Bank in 1991 and was Senior Economist in the Office of the Vice- President - East between 1995-1997. Since 1997 he has worked as the Senior Economist and Senior Desk Officer for India, Country Director for Nepal and Director of Operations Coordination for South Asia. He has been the Country Director for ADB’s Sri Lanka Resident Mission since 2006. Prior to joining ADB, Dr. Vokes held teaching positions at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom and at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. He has also worked as an Adviser in the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Zambia. Dr.Vokes has a PhD in Economics from the University of Hull (awarded in 1978) and a Joint BA (Hons) Degree in Economics and South-East Asian Studies, also from the University of Hull (awarded in 1972)

Dr. Sena Yaddehige is a Sri Lankan born British Scientist/Engineer and a UK based industrialist. He is the Managing Director of a European Company, which is part of a group involved in the development of high technology, automated manufacturing, and export of automotive components and systems to Europe and the United States. In addition to the Companies in the Richard Pieris Group, Dr. Yaddehige is a Director of a Swiss Pharmaceutical Company and a Director of a number of European companies. He was appointed to the Board of NDB Bank in December 2007.

Mr Gunasekara is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. His career includes a spell of 17 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 Lloyds Insurance Broking Group, Minet as Financial Controller of its Botswana operation before transferring to Minet's Head Office in London where he served as Financial Controller of Minet International Holdings which controlled the Group’s broakering operation in Africa, Australia and the Far East. On returning to Sri Lanka in 1994, he joined NDB Bank, and retired as its Chief Financial Officer in 2004. He is also a Director of Trans Asia Hotels PLC and Asia Hotels and Properties PLC.

Mr. Jayasekara is the Group Finance Director of Brandix Lanka Limited and is responsible for the overall finance function of the group, as well as related support functions. He is the former Group Finance Director of Aitken Spence & Co., where he was once again responsible for the overall finance function of the parent company and its subsidiaries. He has held several positions at Aitken Spence, including Director Management Board, where he was responsible for finance, planning and IT for their entire group, and Director Corporate Finance, where he spearheaded project evaluation, long-term planning and treasury management. Mr. Jayasekara brings with him a wealth of experience in international banking, having worked at Arab Bank Limited in Bahrain and subsequently holding the post of General Manager with Deutsche Bank in Colombo. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. He is a non-Executive Director of Hayleys Ltd and Lanka Ventures Ltd. Mr. Jayasekara was appointed as a Director of NDB Bank on 10 February 2010.