Ms. Kasturi Chellaraja is the Chief Operating Officer (Head of APAC) of 5 hour international Corporation, and was the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of Hemas Holdings PLC, having tendered her resignation from Hemas Group.

Ms. Chellaraja commenced her career in 1988 as an audit trainee. She joined Hemas in 2002, where she held many senior management positions, including Chief Process Officer and Managing Director of the Hemas Transportation Sector. In 2016, Ms. Chellaraja was appointed the 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.

Ms. Chellaraja 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 served on the Board of Capital Alliance Limited as a Non-Executive Director and on several other Hemas subsidiaries in healthcare and consumer sectors.

Ms. Chellaraja is an active member of several industry associations and currently serves on the main committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and in April 2022 she was appointed as the Regional Champion for the World Bank for South Asia. She was 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 recognized 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.Ms. Chellaraja represented Sri Lanka as a member of the National Netball and Basketball Teams.

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