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Currently a 23 member committee consisting of the GEC and the following members |
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Krishan Balendra |
Executive Vice President
Krishan Balendra has been Head of Corporate Finance and Strategy
since September 2002. He started his professional career at UBS
Warburg, Hong Kong, in investment banking, focusing primarily on
equity capital markets. After a four year stint in Hong Kong, he
continued his career in corporate finance at Aitken Spence & Co. Ltd.,
Sri Lanka prior to joining JKH. He holds a Law Degree (LLB) from
the University of London and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a
member of the board of the Colombo Stock Exchange. |
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Manilal De Silva |
Executive Vice President
Manilal De Silva, Head of the Consumer Foods Sector, joined the
group in July 2003. Prior to joining the group, he gained wide
international experience in a variety of industries which included food
processing, construction, professional services, and international trade,
whilst serving in senior management and board positions with
multinational organizations over a period of seventeen years. During
this period he was based in Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and the
USA. He is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants, UK. He also serves as Chairman, Interest
Group for the Food Sector of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and
on the Food Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health. |
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Sujiva Dewaraja |
Executive Vice President
Sujiva Dewaraja heads the IT Sector. Since passing out as a Chartered
Management Accountant in London, he worked in Corporate Strategy
at a diversified conglomerate and in MIS for a Middle Eastern
Government. Moving to USA in 1987, he read for an MBA from the
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earning a place on the Dean's
List. Since then he has been in General Management, holding CEO
level positions in the past 16 years. He is a Fellow of CIMA, UK and
an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London.
He has served on the Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of
Commerce and currently serves on the advisory panel on ICT Export
to the Minister of Enterprise Development. |
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Sanjeeva Fernando |
Executive Vice President
Sanjeeva Fernando heads the BPO arm of the group. Prior to this, he
was Head of the Transportation industry group. He has over 21 years
of management experience, 14 of which have been with the group in
diverse businesses and capacities. A printer by profession, he qualified
from the London School of Printing and is a member of the London
Institute of Printing. He joined JKH in 1993 to head the group's
printing and packaging business and was the CEO of Lanka Marine
Services from the time of its acquisition in 2002 until 2005. |
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Roshanie JayasunderaMoraes |
Executive Vice President
Roshanie JayasunderaMoraes, Head of the Retail sector, has been with the group since 1991. She was with the Airlines sector of the Transportation industry group, before being appointed as Head of the group's supermarket business in November 2003. A holder of a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), UK, she also holds a MBA from the Post¬Graduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. |
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Sanjeeva Jayaweera |
Executive Vice President
Sanjeeva Jayaweera, the Chief Financial Officer for the CF&R industry group, has been with the group for 15 years, during which he served in the Resort Hotels sector of the Leisure industry group and was the Sector Financial Controller for Resort Hotels from 1998 to 2005. Prior to joining the group, he was based in the United Kingdom and worked for several years as an Audit Manager. |
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Jayantissa Kehelpannala |
Executive Vice President
Jayantissa Kehelpannala, currently Sector Head Resort Hotels, has been with the Group for 26 years. He has over 19 years of management experience in the leisure industry, both in hoteliering and inbound tourism.
He is currently a committee member of the Tourist Hotels Association of Sri Lanka and represents the Sri Lankan Hotel Industry at the committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Director of the Rainforest Ecolodge which is an industry driven hotel development project to cater and popularise Eco Tourism in Sri Lanka. In addition, he holds office as the President of The Sri Lanka Maldives Bilateral Business Council and Vice Chairman, Hotels and Tourism Employers Group of the Employers Federation of Ceylon.
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Vasantha Leelananda |
Executive Vice President
Vasantha Leelananda is Head of the Destination Management sector and counts over 29 years in the leisure industry with the John Keells group. He served as the Managing Director of Walkers Tours from 1997 to 2005 and overlooks the travel operations in Maldives, India and Sri Lanka. Vasantha holds a MBA from the University of Leicester. He is the immediate past President of the Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO), a Board Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management and a cochair of the Responsible Tourism Partnership which is affiliated to the Travel Foundation UK. |
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Chandrika Perera |
Executive Vice President
Chandrika Perera was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Leisure industry group in March 2005. She has been with the group for 25 years. She held the position of Group Financial Controller from 1999 to 2005. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Society of Certified Management Accountants, Sri Lanka, she holds a MBA (Finance) from the University of Southern Queensland. She serves as a management committee member of the Financial Reporting Faculty of ICASL and is a member of the Steering Committee on Income Taxes. |
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Mano Rajakariar |
Executive Vice President
Mano Rajakariar has been the Group Financial Controller since April 2005. He has been with the group for over 12 years in many capacities including serving as the Sector Financial Controller of the Plantations sector and heading the Shared Services implementation within the Group. He has over 20 years of experience in audit, finance and general management, acquired both in Sri Lanka and overseas. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. He currently serves as a committee member of the Urgent Issues Task Force (UITF) of the ICASL. |
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Waruna Rajapaksa |
Executive Vice President
Waruna Rajapaksa, Head of New Business Development and Group Initiatives, has over 21 years of experience in Sri Lanka and in the UK, primarily in management consultancy and project finance. Prior to joining the group in 2002, he worked for the government at the Bureau of Infrastructure Investment, Informatics International Ltd (UK) and at Ernst & Young. He is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK and an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He also holds a MBA from Cass Business School, London, UK. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic Infrastructure Development of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. |
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Suresh Rajendra |
Executive Vice President
Suresh Rajendra, Head of the Property Development and Real Estate sectors, has over 16 years of experience in the fields of finance, travel & tourism and business development acquired both in Sri Lanka and overseas. Prior to joining the group, he was the Head of Commercial and Business Development for NRMA Motoring & Services in Sydney, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. |
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Lallith Ramanayake |
Executive Vice President
Lallith Ramanayake is currently the Sector Head of the Transportation industry group. He was Head of the Plantation Services sector till July 2007 and counts over 36 years with the group and the tea industry. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK with the Chartered Marketer status. He holds a MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura. He has been the Chairman of the Colombo Brokers' Association, a Director of the Sri Lanka Tea Board, Deputy Chairman of the Tea Association of Sri Lanka, and a member of the Plantation/Tea Cluster of the NCED. He has served on the Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. |
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Ramesh Shanmuganathan |
Executive Vice President
Ramesh Shanmuganathan is the group's Chief Information Officer and has over 15 years of experience in the ICT industry both in Sri Lanka and the USA, with the last 8 years in Clevel management. Prior to this he has served in the Group's IT sector as the CEO of Keells Business Systems Limited since 2001 and Head of Strategy/New Business Initiatives of John Keells Computer Services Ltd since 2004, until he assumed duties as the group's CIO. He is a HayesFulbright Scholar and holds to his credit a MSc (Information Technology & Computer Science) with Phi Kappa Phi Honours from Rochester Institute of Technology, MBA (General) from Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and BSc.Eng. (Electronics & Telecommunications) with First Class Honours from University of Moratuwa. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He also has active memberships in several other professional institutions and is a visiting faculty member for several postgraduate programmes. |
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Devika Weerasinghe |
Executive Vice President
Devika Weerasinghe, Chief Financial Officer of the Transportation industry group, previously held the position of Sector Financial Controller of the Transportation sector. She also served as the Sector Financial Controller of the Airlines SBU of the Transportation sector during the period 19982004. She is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK and also holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. |
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