Arjun Fernando ( Chairman)

Mr. Arjun Rishya Fernando was appointed to the Board of NDB Securities (Private) Limited on 14th March 2018. He currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Central Finance PLC, Home Finance Company, Fiji, Durdans Medical Surgical Hospitals (Private) Limited, The Solutions Group (Pvt) Ltd and First Media Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. He also serves on the Boards of NDB Capital Holdings Limited and NDB Zephyr Partners Ltd for and behalf of the NDB Capital Group of Companies. Mr. Fernando has functioned as the CEO / Director of DFCC Bank from 2013 to 2017 and was on the boards of several of DFCC Bank's Subsidiaries, Joint Ventures and Associates. Prior to joining DFCC Bank, Mr. Fernando has had a long and illustrious carrier at HSBC Sri Lanka and overseas. He holds an MSc (Management) from Clemson University, South Carolina, USA and a BSc (Engineering) from Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB), UK

Kelum Edirisinghe ( Director)

Kelum Edirisinghe currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of National Development Bank PLC after having completed 30 years with HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives, where he held several key senior management positions, the last being the Chief Risk Officer of HSBC Sri Lanka and Maldives where he also served as the Chair of the Risk Committee. His banking experience at HSBC covers a variety of leadership roles in Enterprise-wide Risk Management, Commercial Banking, Fund Management, Debt Restructuring, Financial Analysis and Branch Banking.

Mr. Edirisinghe holds concurrent appointments such as the Chairman of Development Holdings (Private) Limited and as a director in several of the Bank's subsidiaries such as NDB Capital Holdings Limited, NDB Securities (Private) Limited, NDB Wealth Management Limited and NDB Investment Bank Limited.

Mr. Edirisinghe holds a BSc from the University of Manchester in association with The Chartered Institute of Bankers and a Master of Business Administration from Edith Cowan University, Australia. He also holds a Diploma in Financial Management from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a certification on Treasury and Foreign Exchange Operations from Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Mr. Edirisinghe is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Centre for Banking Studies of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Ananda Atukorala (Director)

Mr. Atukorala was the Chairman of National Development Bank PLC (NDB) from August 2016 until his retirement in April 2019. He possesses extensive experience in banking extending over 40 years, having been with the ANZ Grindlays Banking Group, both in Sri Lanka & overseas and having served as Deputy General Manager of ANZ Grindlays Bank, Sri Lanka; Country Manager- Sri Lanka of Mashreq Bank PSC, former Director of Union Bank PLC and DFCC Bank PLC.

In addition to his role as Chairman/ Director of NDB, Mr. Atukorala was also the Chairman of two other subsidiaries of NDB namely, NDB Securities (Private) Limited and Development Holdings (Private) Limited during his time with NDB. Mr. Atukorala was also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Orient Finance PLC and an Independent Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of UB Finance Company Ltd. He is presently a Director of United Motors Lanka PLC, Colombo City Holdings PLC, Unimo Enterprises Ltd, Arni Holdings & Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Unawatuna Boutique Resort (Pvt) Ltd and Imperial Healthcare (Pvt) Ltd.

Mr. Atukorala has also served as a Member of the Technology Initiative for the Private Sector - an USAID sponsored project with the Ministry of Industrial Development, a Member of the Commercial Banking Sector of the Presidential Commission on Finance and Banking and as a Committee Member of the Banker's Club of Sri Lanka. He was a former Director of the Sri Lanka Banks' Association (Guarantee) Ltd, TVS Lanka Limited and the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka (CRIB). He was also a former advisor to the Ministry of Policy Development & Implementation.

He holds a BSc (Univ. of Leeds, UK), MTT (North Carolina State Univ., USA) and a MBA.

B S Sinniah (Director)

A veteran banker, Mr. Sinniah retired in 2018 as Managing Director of Citibank and Global Head of FX Corporate Sales and e-FX Solutions after 38 illustrious years of service, having started his career at Citibank Colombo, then moving to Citibank Australia, and ending his career based out of London. He is currently a Director of National Development Bank PLC, Transact Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Codevus (Pvt) Ltd, Youcan (UK) and Knightsbridge eCommerce.

Mr. Sinniah holds a Master of Applied Finance (Macquarie University, Australia)

K.V. Vinoj (Director)

Mr. Vinoj is currently serving as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of National Development Bank PLC and serves as a director in several of the Bank's subsidiaries such as NDB Capital Holdings Limited, NDB Securities (Private) Limited, NDB Investment Bank Limited, NDB Wealth Management Limited, NDB Zephyr Partners Lanka (Private) Limited and Development Holdings (Pvt) Ltd.

Mr. Vinoj brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a banking professional, spanning over 31 years of experience in the industry. He joined NDB Bank PLC in 2005, as a Corporate Banking Relationship Manager and held progressive management positions in cross functional roles and is a versatile Banker having experience in multiple business lines. He was promoted to Assistant Vice President (AVP) Corporate Banking in 2008. He then moved laterally as AVP - Correspondent & Institutional Banking in 2013, thereafter as AVP Branch Network Management in 2017 and was subsequently promoted in the same Department as Vice President Branch Network Management & Product Development in 2019. In 2020, he again moved laterally as the Vice President - Wholesale Banking. In the early stages of his career, Vinoj worked for Seylan Bank PLC and Nations Trust Bank PLC in Branch Banking, Credit and Corporate Banking respectively.

Mr. Vinoj is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA Australia), an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment (UK), holds a Master of Business Administration in Financial Economics (University of Colombo) and a Master of Business Administration (University of Southern Queensland Australia), Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Auditing and Financial Analysis (Cranfield University School/CA SL), Diploma in HRM (IPMSL) and a Diploma in Credit Management (IBSL).

Senaka Kakiriwaragodage (Director)

Mr. Senaka Kakiriwaragodage is the Chief Executive Officer of NDB Capital Holdings Limited, investment banking cluster of NDB Bank. He is also a director of several portfolio companies managed by Emerald Sri Lanka Fund 1 Limited, a private equity fund dedicated for Sri Lanka. Senaka possesses wide-ranging experience in investment banking activities such as IPOs, debt and equity placements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, advisory services and project financing. Prior to joining the NDB Group, Mr. Kakiriwaragodage served as an Engineer at Virtusa (Pvt.) Ltd.

Mr. Kakiriwaragodage holds a B.Sc. First Class Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa and a MBA from the University of Manchester, UK. He is also a fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and a CFA Charterholder. He served as a member of CIMA Sri Lanka Board and was a council member of CFA Sri Lanka. Mr. Kakiriwaragodage has been a CIMA lecturer and a visiting faculty member for Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. In addition, he has conducted several corporate training programs organized by Sri Lanka Institute of Directors and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.