Sri Lanka–singapore Business Council elects Rohitha Mendis as new President

The 20th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Sri Lanka- Singapore Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce was held recently at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce electing Rohitha Mendis as the President. AGM was attended by over 35 representatives from member companies.

Rohitha Mendis the newly elected President addressing the members mentioned that “Our purpose is to help our members to reach out to Singaporean counterparts and explore new opportunities, frontiers for business expansions and that he will focus the attention and organize activities towards this goal.

He urged and encouraged all members to actively engage, in the affairs of the council, so that, the decisions taken and actions implemented, will be fruitful to all members as well as the country as a whole. Rohitha further requested ideas, suggestions from the membership.

He mentioned that since the signing of the SLSFTA there has been much focus on Sri Lanka and several business delegations from Singapore has already visited Sri Lanka exploring opportunities and assured the membership the support of the council in securing opportunities for members. Some of the activities planned includes leading outward business delegations of local companies to Singapore to meet their counterparts and look for new frontiers, Members Evening, Luncheon meeting etc and will updated the members as and when events are planned.

Prajeeth Balasubramaniam, General Partner, BOV Capital (Pvt) Ltd and Upali C Bandaranayake , Director Valdhue and Walker (Pvt) Ltd and Janaka Gunasekara, Deputy Managing Director - Agri Inputs , A Baur & Company Limited were elected as Vice Presidents and Shamil Mendis

Chairman/ Managing Director /Spear International (Pvt) Limited will serve as the Immediate past President.

The following companies were elected to serve on the committee for the year 2018- 2019. Aitken Spence Cargo (Pvt) Ltd, Just In Time Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, KPMG, MAC Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, Overseas Realty (Ceylon) PLC, Prima Ceylon (Pvt) Ltd,

In closing his acceptance speech Rohitha once again thanked the Vice Presidents and the Executive committee for accepting positions and the general membership for the confidence place by unanimously electing him as the President of the Council.