Chairman
Mr. Sriyan Cooray has served on the Board of Directors of National Development Bank PLC (NDB) since 10th August 2018 and is an Independent Non-Executive Director.
He serves on several subcommittees of the Board including the Integrated Risk Management Committee, Audit Committee, Strategic Issues Committee, Human Resources & Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee, Chairing the Integrated Risk Management Committee and Human Resources & Remuneration Committee. Mr. Cooray has, on many occasions, also served in the capacity of Acting Chairman of NDB as appointed by the Board when required.
An accomplished banker with 28 years of experience at HSBC, Mr. Cooray has served in a wide range of areas ranging from Finance, Operations, Compliance, Administration and Retail Banking at HSBC and retired from HSBC - Sri Lanka and Maldives as the Chief Operating Officer in May 2018 , which position he held from 2007. Whilst at HSBC, Mr. Cooray has also served on its Executive Committee for 25 years, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the HSBC Provident and Pension Fund, Chaired the Banking Technical Advisory Committee in 2015/2016 and served on many internal committees of HSBC including the Assets and Liabilities Committee, Human Resource Policy Review Committee and HSBC’s IT Steering Committee. He was also the Chairman of the Management Committee of HSBC which comprised the Bank’s second tier management and acted as the Bank’s Acting CEO on numerous occasions in the last 15 years of his banking career with HSBC.
Prior to joining HSBC, Mr. Cooray has also been a part of Speville M & W Ltd, in the capacity of Financial Controller from 1987 -1990 and prior to that he was engaged with KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton & Company, Chartered Accountants.
Mr. Cooray is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has gained a wealth of expertise from the widespread executive development programmes offered by the HSBC Group.
He is currently an independent non-executive director of Orient Finance PLC.
Director / Chief Executive Officer (Non-Independent)
Mr. Dimantha Seneviratne counts more than 32 years of experience in the Banking industry, of which the last 3 years were with Pan Asia Banking Corporation PLC (PABC) where he functioned as Director / CEO. He was instrumental in turning around PABC and transforming it into a high performing mid sized player in the industry.
Prior to that, he spent 15 years with the HSBC Group, where he held key senior management positions including Chief Risk Officer Post of Sri Lanka and Maldives, Bangladesh and Thailand where he was responsible for business growth , strategy and governance in those respective geographies as a member of the Country Leadership Team.
Mr. Seneviratne commenced his banking career with Sampath Bank and has also served in Overseas Trust Bank, Colombo Branch and Saudi British Bank prior to joining HSBC.
Mr. Seneviratne holds a MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, and BSc, from the same University. He is a Fellow Member (FIB) of the Institute of Bankers, Sri Lanka and a Post Graduate Diploma Holder in computer system design from the NIBM. He successfully completed the High Potential Leadership Programme at the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA, in 2016.
He is a Past President of The Association of Professional Bankers (APB) Sri Lanka, having held various positions in the Executive Council of the APB for over a decade.
Having Joined NDB as the CEO / Director on 1st January 2017, he currently functions as a Chairman of Sri Lanka Banks' Association (Guarantee) Limited and Development Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, Director of the Credit Information Bureau - Sri Lanka, Lanka Clear (Pvt) Ltd and several subsidiaries of the NDB group.
Director (Non-Independent)
Mr. Sinniah has been appointed to the Board of Directors of National Development Bank PLC with effect from 28th March 2019.He is a former Managing Director of Citibank and Global Head of FX Corporate Sales and e-FX Solutions. He retired in 2018 after 38 years having started his career at Citibank Colombo, then moving to Citibank Australia, and ending his career based out of London. He served as a director of NDB Capital Holdings Limited for a short period.
Mr. Sinniah holds a Master of Applied Finance (Macquarie University, Australia)
Director (Independent)
Mr Mudalige is the Managing Partner of PwC, Sri Lanka and counts over 30 years of experience as a Chartered Accountant. He is a FCA (ICA - SL), FCMA (CIMA – UK), FCCA (ACCA – UK) and FCPA (CPA – Australia).
Mr Mudalige has vast experience as the Audit Committee Chair in both public and private sector organisations. He is a past President of ICASL and has been a member of the Council of ICASL and of the governing board of CIMA UK, Sri Lanka Division, a Commission member of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka and held several such other positions locally and globally during the span of his career.
Mr Mudalige was a director of Hatton National Bank PLC from 2012 to 2019 and was a Chair and member of several of its board subcommittees during his tenure with HNB.
Mr Mudalige has been appointed as an Independent non-executive director of National Development Bank PLC with effect from 6 January 2020.
Director (Independent)
Mr. D’Alwis is a President’s Counsel in Sri Lanka with over 34 years of experience as an Attorney-at-Law and he currently serves as a Director of Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC.
He has an extensive practice in the fields of civil, corporate, commercial and administrative law before the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Civil Appellate High Court, Commercial High Court and District Courts within Sri Lanka. He also has experience in alternate dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration, advising on corporate legal matters, regulatory frameworks, compliance requirements and legal due diligence.
Mr. D’Alwis has served as a Member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka, Member of the Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reforms, Member of the Panel of Legal Advisors to the Tax Appeals Commission, Member of the National Council for Economic Development (NCED) of the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Vice Chairman of the Rent Board of Review, Member of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Representative of the Sri Lanka Bar Association to the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners’ Association of Sri Lanka (BRIPASL), Vice President of the Colombo Law Society and Vice Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka.
Director (Non-Independent)
Ms. Chetnakarnkul, Investment Director, Head of Asia Region (Bangkok, Thailand) of the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (“NORFUND”), has been appointed to the Board of National Development Bank PLC with effect from 25th May 2021. At NORFUND, she founded Norfund’s Asia office and has been responsible for building, leading, and managing Norfund’s investments in Asia. Prior to joining NORFUND, she worked at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group in Washington D.C.
Ms. Chetnakarnkul holds a Master’s Degree in Arts – Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory; from the Southeast Asia Studies School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University (Washington D.C.) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (International Program) from Thammasat University, Bangkok. She has also followed the Director Certification Program (DCP 184, Board Training) of the Institute of Directors of Thailand (Bangkok) and a Fintech certification course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Director (Non-Independent)
Ms. K V Chandima Dilrukshi is an officer of the Sri Lanka Accountants’ Service, with an experience over 19 years in the public service. She is presently working as a Director of the Department of Fiscal Policy. Prior to that, she worked as a Director at the Department of Public Enterprises and was responsible for monitoring State Owned Enterprises in the Banking, Insurance and Finance sector.
She is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and hold Special Degree in Accountancy and Financial Management from the University of Sri Jayawardhanapura, Master of Business Administration from the International University of Japan and a Diploma in Procurement and Contract Administration and a Diploma in Business Communication from the Institute for Government Accounts and Finance.
Ms. Dilrukshi has also represented the General Treasury on the Boards of Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation, Lankaputhra Development Bank Ltd, Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Ltd and Litro Gas Lanka Ltd. She currently serves as a Director on the Board of Directors of the Urban Development Authority and Postgraduate Institute of Management. Since December 2018, she has been functioning as the Finance Manager on acting basis at the Rooftop Solar Power Generation Project, which is funded by the Asian Development Bank.
She is also serving as a visiting lecturer at the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration and is specialized in the areas of public private partnership, public finance and public sector accounting. She also represents number of technical evaluation committees and project committees to assist standing cabinet appointed procurement committees including Srilankan Airlines, Ceylon Electricity Board and National Water Supply & Drainage Board.
Director (Independent)
Kasturi Angela Wilson is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Hemas Holdings PLC.
Kasturi commenced her career in 1988 as an audit trainee. She ajoined Hemas in 2002, where she held many senior management positions, including Chief Process Officer and Managing Director of the Hemas Transportation Sector. In 2016, Kasturi took over as Managing Director of Hemas Pharmaceuticals, Surgicals and Diagnostics, where she was responsible for driving the company’s local and regional expansion. She also functioned as the Managing Director of Hemas Mobility Sector prior to being appointed as Group CEO in October 2020.
Kasturi is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and is an alumni of the Senior Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.
She serves on the Board of Capital Alliance Limited as a Non-Executive Director, along with several other Hemas subsidiaries in the healthcare and consumer sectors. Kasturi is an active member of several industry associations and currently serves on the main committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and in Aprill 2022 she was appointed as the Regional Champion for the World Bank for South Asia.
She is also the immediate past president of the Sri Lanka Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry and has also served as a Council Member of the National Sports Council of Sri Lanka till March 2022 and has served on the Board of SLID ( Sri Lanka Institute of Directors), CIMA Sri Lanka and Board of the Lankan Angels Network (LAN) – a leading start up eco system in Sri Lanka.
She was recognised as one of the twelve Top Women Change-Makers in the country in 2019 by the Parliament of Sri Lanka and was also recognized as one of the ten ‘Wise Women’ impactful leaders of Sri Lanka by the Ministry of Skills and Vocational Education in 2022.
Kasturi represented Sri Lanka as a member of the National Netball and Basketball Teams
Director
Shweta Aprameya was one of the founding team members and COO & Senior Vice President of Airtel Payments Bank in India. She has also served as a Digital Finance Advisor to IFC/World Bank Group clients in Sri Lanka & India on large scale digital transformation projects.
She serves on the board of MAHA Agriculture Microfinance in Myanmar as IFC Nominee Director. Shweta is an advisor to early stage social impact ventures in India. Her digital transformation drive, grounded knowledge in economics and management and varied experience in the Digital Financial Inclusion space contributes towards her excellence.
She is a corporate professional turned entrepreneur who believes in building ideas into businesses at scale that directly contribute to the growth and impact of emerging sectors. Turning towards entrepreneurship post a successful career at NCR Corporation, UK, in a global business role; Shweta has set-up Fintech ventures for expanding & delivering of financial access, choice & control in India through YTS Solutions Ltd and ARTHimpact Digital Loans (Pvt) Ltd.
Shweta holds a MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management - USA, a MSc in Economic Management & Policy - UK and a BA (Economics) in India. She has received much praise for her work and has been honoured and recognized in the BW 40 Under 40 “Elite club 2022” by Business World. She has been recognized by MIT Sloan School of Management as the Principal Innovative Leader of the Future and awarded with the Influential Change Maker Award.
Director
Hasitha is Managing Director of the Brandix Group and drives the overall strategy and transformative journey of the company in Sri Lanka and overseas. Prior to taking up reigns as Managing Director, Hasitha served as Group Finance Director and Chief Strategy Officer of the Group, and sits as a Director on its subsidiaries and integrated ventures that include Teejay Lanka PLC.
An Independent Director at John Keells Hotels PLC, he serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Hasitha was also a Director at Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka’s largest state-owned bank, chairing the Board Risk andNominations Committees. He also served on the Board of CIMA Sri Lanka, and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, and was a Committee Member at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka’s oldest and most august trade chamber.
Before joining Brandix, Hasitha was the Head of Research at HNB Stockbrokers (Private) Limited. He brings a wealth of experience including over a decade of service as a lecturer for CIMA (UK), where he won ‘Tutor of the Year’ at the CIMA Global Financial Management Awards in 2009. Hasitha was also engaged with the ACCA (UK) in Sri Lanka, India, Singapore and the Philippines. He holds a MBA in International Finance and a BSc in Computer Science. He is a Fellow Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA - UK), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA-UK), and the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (CMA - SL). He is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)