THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dimantha Seneviratne
Director/Chief Executive Officer

Please refer pages 192 and 193 for profile

Buwanekabahu Perera
Vice-President – Corporate Banking

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 38 years of experience including 19 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Banque Indosuez,, Sampath Bank PLC and Deutsche Bank.
Exposure areas: Corporate Banking, Project Finance and International Trade
Professional qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Services - University of Manchester, UK Postgraduate Diploma in Bank Financial Management - University of Sri Jayewardenepura Associate Member - Chartered Institute of Bankers, UK
Other Information: Past president of the Association of Professional Bankers of Sri Lanka (APB). Current Chairman of the Bankers’ Technical Advisory Committee under Sri Lanka Banks’ Association [SLBA]
Director – NDB Investment Bank Limited Colombo

Sanjaya Perera
Vice-President – Personal Banking & Branch Network Management

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 27 years of experience including 02 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Nations Trust Bank PLC, Sampath Bank PLC
Exposure areas: Retail banking , SME Banking , Auditing
Professional qualifications: MBA from the Post Graduate Institute of Management of University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Fellow of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka
Passed finalist of the Association of Accounting Technicians (UK)

Niran Mahawatte
Vice-President – Treasury

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 25 years of banking experience of which 16 years is with NDB.
Experience prior to joining NDB: Deutsche Bank and the Commercial Bank of Ceylon
Exposure areas: Treasury, Assets & Liability Management, Market Risk
Professional qualifications: B.Sc. from the University of Colombo
Other Information: Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, (FCMA) UK

Lalith T Fernando
Group Chief Financial Officer

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 27 years of experience with a 2 years stint at the Bank, prior to rejoining as the GCFO on 01 February 2018
Experience prior to joining NDB: GCFO - Sri Lanka Telecom PLC
Several leadership positions at Dialog Axiata PLC, Robi Axiata (Bangladesh), Virtusa Incorporation, Male, Water & Sewerage Co (Pvt) Limited, Nations Trust Bank, Hutchison Telecom , National Development Bank and Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants.
Exposure areas: Finance, project management, business operations and internal audit related exposure in diversified fields including banking and finance, software development, telecommunications etc.
Professional qualifications: Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka (FCA), Fellow member of Certified Management Accountants (FCMA), Fellow Member and the Immediate Past President of the Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (FMAAT), MBA - Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) -University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Masters in Financial Economics - University of Colombo.
Other information: Visiting Lecturer in ‘Monetary and Financial Systems’ at Bankers College from 2006 - 2012

Ms. Nirmala Rayen
Vice-President – Group Risk Management

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 36 years of experience with over 17 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. , ABN Bank N.V, Citibank N.A.
Exposure areas: Operations, corporate banking and risk management
Professional qualifications: Associate Member of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka
Other Information: Immediate Past President of the Association of Banking Sector Risk Professionals of Sri
Lanka

Sujeewa Dissanayake
Vice-President – Information Technology

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 32 years’ experience in IT & Banking with over 11 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Pan Asia Bank Banking Corporation PLC
Union Bank of Colombo as the Head of IT.
IBM World Trade Corporation - Finance Industry specialist
Exposure areas: Overall exposure in IT and strategy
Professional qualifications: Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Lincoln, UK.
Chartered Member of the British Computer Society
Other Information: Past Chairman of the British Computer Society, Sri Lanka Section
Author of two IBM Red Books for IBM Research labs, USA.

Ms. Shanti Gnanapragasam
Vice-President – Shared Services

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 36 years of experience in banking with over 2 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Chief Risk Officer and Head of Treasury and Global Markets at Hatton National Bank
Group Treasurer at Hayleys PLC
Deputy Head of Treasury at People’s Bank
Director Global Markets and Treasury at American Express Bank
Exposure areas: Risk management, Treasury, Operations, Credit
Professional qualifications: B.Sc. degree from the University of Madras
Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK (FCMA)
Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)
Other Information: Certified by ACI as a professional foreign exchange dealer
Certified by Omega Institute USA as a Credit Professional
CISI Diploma holder for Risk in Financial Services

Indika Ranaweera
Vice-President – SME, Middle Market and Business Banking

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 22 years of overall
experience with 19 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Sampath Bank PLC, Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau
Exposure areas: SME Banking, Retail Banking, Network Management, Product Development
Professional qualifications: B.Sc. Engineering (Hons.) from University of Moratuwa PGDBM from University of Colombo, Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Colombo (Merit), Master’s Degree in Financial Economics from the, University of Colombo (Merit)

Chandrasiri Hewapattini
Vice-President – Human Resources

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 40 years of experience in HR, local as well as overseas. Joined NDB in August 2017.
Experience prior to joining NDB: Unilever Sri Lanka, Nestle Lanka, HSBC Sri Lanka, Nations Trust Bank PLC and Saudi Investment Bank, KSA
Exposure areas: All aspects of Human Resource Management
Professional qualifications: Fellow of Institute of Personnel Management, Sri Lanka (FIPM)
Diploma in Personnel Management by NIBM Sri Lanka
Other information: Council Member, Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) Sri Lanka.

Ms. Melody Wickramanayake
Vice-President – Legal

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 26 years of overall
experience with over 24 years of experience with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Ms. Wickramanayake has worked in the Middle East for a period of 2 years during the period 2008 to 2010
Exposure areas: Legal affairs, company secretarial affairs and compliance
Professional qualifications: Attorney-at-law (Hons.) of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
Notary Public
Commissioner for Oaths
Qualified Company Secretary

Ms. Ruwani de Silva
Vice-President – Group Audit

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 22 years of experience including 16 years with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Head of Audit at the ABN Amro – Colombo Branch, Exposure at the Tax & Audits Departments of Ernst & Young
Exposure areas: Audit, Finance & Compliance
Professional qualifications: Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA) and
Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK (FCMA)

Ms. Ishani Senaweera
Vice-President – Organizational Change Management and Development

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 23 years of experience with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Ms. Senaweera joined NDB as a Management Trainee in 1995 as her first job after graduating, and has been with the Bank since.
Exposure areas: All round exposure in Human Resources and talent management, organizational change management, corporate banking and project financing
Professional qualifications: Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Wales B.Sc. in Economics and Management from the University of London

Sanjaya Senarath
Assistant Vice-President – Marketing & Customer Experience

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 28 years of building brands and overall marketing experience with over 5 years in NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: General Manager Marketing – Hutchison Telecommunications Pvt Limited
Head of Marketing at Sri Lanka Insurance, Asian Alliance Insurance
Product Manager - Eagle Insurance Limited
Delmege Forsyth & Co Limited – FMCG Marketing
Began Career at John Keells Holdings working at Keells Food Products Marketing
Exposure areas: Field of marketing in a number of diverse environments spanning the areas of marketing strategy,
brand management, product management, distribution, marketing communications and customer service in FMCG,
retail, insurance & mobile telecommunication industries and Banking
Professional qualifications: B.Sc. in Financial Management from California State University, Long Beach, USA
Associate Degree from Santa Monica College, California, USA
Associate member – CIM – UK

Ms. Shehani Ranasinghe
Assistant Vice-President/Company Secretary

Please refer pages 196 and 197 for the profile.

Ms. Manique Kiriella Bandara
Assistant Vice-President - Compliance Officer

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 21 years of experience with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Immediately after taking oaths as an Attorney at Law she joined National Development Bank of Sri Lanka as a management trainee in December 1997 and has been with the Bank since.
Exposure areas: Legal counsel and support in the areas of lending, investment banking, structuring transactions, fund raising , labour related investigations
Advisory on banking regulation and exchange control related matters.
Secretary to the Boards of several subsidiaries at NDB during the period 2009-2013.
Active involvement in developing the corporate governance framework in place at the Bank.
AML and regulatory risk of the Bank.
Professional qualifications: LLB (University of Colombo)
Attorney-at- law (Hons.) of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
Other Information: A member of the Training Committee of the Association of Compliance Officer of Banks

Damitha Silva
Assistant Vice-President – Digital Financial Services

Total working experience with length of service at NDB (as at 31.12.2017): Over 19 years of experience including 4 months with NDB
Experience prior to joining NDB: Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, Nations Trust Bank PLC
Exposure areas: International Trade, Consumer Banking, Digital Banking, Remittances and International Operations
Professional qualifications: MBA with merit from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Associate Member of the Institute Bankers of Sri Lanka, Reading for Mphil / Phd from University of Colombo
Other information: Participant of the Advanced Management Program conducted by the Cornell University – USA