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Susantha Ratnayake |
Chairman-CEO
Mr Ratnayake was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of John Keells Holdings in January 2006 and has served on the JKH board since 1992/93. He has overall responsibility for Group Strategy and New Business Development. Mr Ratnayake is a council member of the Employers' Federation of Ceylon and is a committee member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on various clusters of the National Council of Economic Development (NCED). Mr Ratnayake has over 29 years management experience, all of which is within the John Keells group. |
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Ajit Gunewardene |
Deputy Chairman
Mr Gunewardene is the Deputy Chairman of JKH and has been a member of the board since 1992/93. Whilst having overall responsibility for the Financial Services, Leisure and Property industry groups, he oversees the Investor Relations function at the centre. He is also a member of the Capital Markets Cluster of the NCED. He is a former Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange. Mr Gunewardene brings 26 years of management experience to the board. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a major in economics. |
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Sumithra Gunesekera |
Director and President
Appointed to the Board in 1997/98, Mr Gunesekera has overall responsibility for the Plantation Services sector and the Corporate Communications function at the centre. He is also the Head of the John Keells Social Responsibility Foundation Management Committee. Mr. Gunesekera is the Chairman of the Corporate Social Responsibility sub-committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce as well as the Chairman of the Employers' Network on Disability of the Employers' Federation of Ceylon. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management. Mr Gunesekera is a Director in many group companies and has over 25 years of management experience. |
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Ronnie Peiris |
Group Finance Director
Appointed to the board during 2002/03, Mr Peiris has overall
responsibility for Group Finance including Treasury, Taxation,
Corporate Finance, Group Initiatives, Shared Services and the
Information Technology functions at the centre. Previously,
Managing Director of Anglo American Corporation (Central Africa)
Limited and EXCO member of Konkola Copper Mines plc, both in
Zambia, Mr Peiris has served on many boards overseas. He has over
35 years finance and general management experience in Sri Lanka
and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute ofManagement
Accountants, UK, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,
UK, and the Society of Certified Management Accountants,
Sri Lanka, and holds a MBA from the University of Cape Town,
South Africa. He is a member of the committee of the Ceylon
Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of its Taxation sub committee
and also serves on its Economic, Fiscal and Policy Planning
sub committee. |
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Sithie Tiruchelvam |
*Director
Appointed to the board in January 2007, Ms Tiruchelvam, a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, specialises in corporate law, intellectual property law and labour law and is a notable human rights campaigner. She obtained her LLB from the University of Ceylon in 1966, and was admitted to the Supreme Court as Advocate in 1968. She is a founding Partner of Tiruchelvam Associates. Ms Tiruchelvam currently serves on several boards, among them being Central Corporate & Consultancy Services (Pvt.) Limited, Galadari Hotels (Lanka) Limited, Nadesan Centre for
Human Rights, LIRNEasia and South Asians for Human Rights, a regional organisation with its secretariat in Colombo. She is the Chairperson of the Foundations for Peace Network, a worldwide network of community foundations working on peace and reconciliation in fractured societies. She has also completed a programme on corporate philanthropy at the Rockefeller Foundation, programme for philanthropy in New York, USA
in 2000/01. |
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Franklyn Amerasinghe |
*Director
Appointed to the board during 1999/00, Mr Amerasinghe is the former CEO and Director General of the Employers' Federation of Ceylon. He was thereafter attached to the ILO as a senior specialist in the social dialogue sector in charge of Employers Organizations in East Asia up to October 2002. A Bachelor of Law and a lawyer by
profession, he is currently a consultant and trainer in social dialogue, human resource management and industrial relations, both in Sri Lanka and abroad. He is a Founder Trustee of the Employment Mediation Services Centre and is a judge for sustainability reporting for the ACCA since the initiative commenced in Sri Lanka. He was also one of the Founder Directors of the Skills Development Fund. He has authored books on a wide range of subjects and his papers on Industrial Relations in Sri Lanka have been published in some international and local journals. |
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Rusi Captain (resigned w.e.f. 6th May 2008) |
**Director
Appointed to the board in March 2007, Mr Captain is an entrepreneur and investor in the Sri Lankan corporate sector, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and over 16 years of business experience in a range of manufacturing sectors. His current business interests range from paints, garments, industrial gloves, cutting and polishing diamonds to plastics and other packaging material. He is the co- founder of Asia Stock Brokers, Asia Capital, Dutch Lanka Trailers, Asia Siyaka and Asian Alliance. Mr Captain was educated at the University of Miami, Florida. |
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Tarun Das |
*Director
Appointed to the board during 2000/01, Mr Das has served with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for a long period and was its Chief Executive from 1974 to 2004. Mr Das is currently Chief Mentor, CII. He is also the Chairman of Haldia Petrochemicals Limited of India. |
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Steven Enderby |
*Director
Appointed to the board in 2005/06, Mr Enderby is currently based in Delhi where he is a Partner in the leading emerging markets private equity investor, Actis Capital LLP, UK. His other directorships include Swaraj Mazda, Nitrex Chemicals, Tema India, Phoenix Lamps, Ceylon Oxygen, MFE and Actis Advisers. Mr Enderby holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Accounting from the Queens University of Belfast and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. |
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Mohamed Muhsin |
*Director
Appointed to the board in 2005/06, Mr Muhsin is a strategic management consultant and director on international
corporate and foundation boards. Mr Muhsin retired from the World Bank in 2005 having served in various senior positions for 17 years, ten of which as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to this, he served for ten years as an advisor to the President of Zambia on state enterprise reform and as the Group Financial Director of the business conglomerate, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO).MrMuhsin is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA). |
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Deshamanya Deva Rodrigo |
*Director
Appointed to the board in July 2006, Mr Rodrigo, a Chartered Accountant, had a career with the international accounting and consulting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, joining the firm in East Africa in 1974 and serving in its London offices in 1980. He was a Founder Partner when PricewaterhouseCoopers established its Sri Lankan firm in
1981, and held the position of Senior Partner from 1992 to 30 June 2006, when he retired from the firm. Mr Rodrigo was the Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce from 2004 to
2006. He has previously held public office as a Director of People's Bank from 2000 to early 2003 and as a member of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission from May 1997 to January 2002. Mr Rodrigo was also a member of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka from 2003 to 2006 and a member of the National Council for Administration from 2004 to 2006. |
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* Independent non-executive
** Non-independent non-executive |
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