Four new Non executive Directors have been appointed by the Finace Ministry to the Board of Bank of Ceylon with effect from from 14 January 2020.
.P.Lalith P.Withana,.G.Harsha Wijayawardhana,.Hasitha Premaratne, and Visakha Amarasekere have been appointed to the board.
Lalith P.Withana the Chief Executive Officer at Sri Lankan Catering Ltd.was appointed to the BOC board as a non-executive director.
Withana has held management positions in the corporate sector for over 25 years, in which he had been at senior management levels for more than 18 years in Banking and Manufacturing & Trade..
Harsha Wijayawardhana is a Biochemist turned Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Consultant with more than twenty years of experience in ICT.
He has been involved in Government ICT projects and has designed and implemented government networks such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Information Department of Sri Lanka.
Hasitha Premaratne is the Group Finance Director of Brandix Group. He leads the overall Finance Function of the group and is also responsible for Strategy and Long Range Planning. He is the Managing Director of Brandix India Apparel City and overlooks all Joint Ventures and Investments of the Brandix Group.
Visakha Amarasekere was appointed to the Board of Bank of Ceylon as the Non-Executive Ex-Officio Director representing the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Policy Development.
She is at present attached to the Department of External Resources of the General Treasury of the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Policy Development as a Director and has over 15 years of experience at the Treasury.
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