Harry’s daughter, confidant and Sohli’s son appointed to HNB board
The Board of Hatton National Bank PLC has appointed 4 new directors with effect from tomorrow, according to a statement issued by the bank. The four new Directors are Damien Fernando, Sujeewa Mudalige, Stashani Jayawardena and Rusi Captain.
Damien Fernando, who has a reputation of being a confidant of Harry Jayawardena, has over 29 years of experience in Finance, Life & Non-life Insurance, Asset Management & Unit Trusts, Management of Healthcare, Food & Beverages, Manufacturing and in retail, in the Mercantile Sector.
In his career he has held many offices including Board and other positions.
Fernando is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of the United Kingdom and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Sujeewa Mudalige has over 25 years’ experience in public accounting practice and in industry in Sri Lanka and overseas and currently is a partner of Pricewaterhousecoopers – Sri Lanka.
He has served on regulatory bodies such as the Securities & Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board of Sri Lanka (SLA & ASMB).
Stashani Jayawardena, who is the daughter of tycoon Harry Jayawardena, is a Director of Lanka Milk Foods (CWE) Plc., Lanka Dairies (Pvt) Ltd, Ambewela Livestock Company Ltd, Pattipola Livestock Company Ltd, Ambewela Products (Pvt) Ltd and Indo Lanka Exports (Pvt) Ltd, since 2009. She has worked as an Intern for the Clinton Foundation in 2008.
Jayawardena holds a B.A. (Commercial Law, Criminology, Sociology) from the Monash University, Australia, Professional Certificate in Marketing (CIM), Diploma in Marketing (CIM) and a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing (CIM).
Rusi Captain, who is the son of well known high networth investor Sohli Captain is the Managing Director of Austin Gloves (Ceylon) Ltd, CEI Plastics Ltd, Propertex Development Ltd, Paints & General Industries Ltd, Paints & General Industries (Exports) Ltd, Polypak Secco Ltd and Ranweli Ltd.
The board of HNB PLC will now consist of 11 members of which 7 would be independent Non-executive Directors. The board members are Dr. Ranee Jayamaha (Chairperson), Rajendra Theagarajah (Managing Director/ceo), Pamela C Cooray, N G Wickremeratne, Ms M A R C Cooray, Dr W W Gamage, Dr L R Karunaratne, L U D Fernando, D T S H Mudalige, D S C Jayawardena and R S Captain.