LEADERSHIP
Board of Directors

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

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)

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.

Indrajit Wickramasinghe (Director)

Mr. Indrajit A. Wickramasinghe was the former Director/Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank for over nine years up to his retirement on 15th August 2024. He counts over 35 years of management experience having worked in both the financial services and FMCG sectors in local and multinational companies. He holds a MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. He has been exposed to Executive Education Programmes at the National University of Singapore, The Said Business School of the University of Oxford UK and INCEAD (France). He is a member of the Oxford Business Alumni, University of Oxford UK.

Prior to his appointment as Director/CEO of Union Bank he served as the Chief Operating Officer of NDB Bank where he was responsible for all business areas including Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, SME Banking and Project Finance. Prior to joining the financial services sector, he was with the leading Multi National Company Reckitt and Colman where he held numerous senior management positions.

Mr. Wickramasinghe has also served on a number of boards as an Executive Director and Non-Executive Director. He was the Chairman of the Financial Ombudsman Sri Lanka (Guarantee) and a Director of the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka.

He currently also serves on the boards of NDB Securities (Pvt) Ltd, Fintrex Finance Ltd and Overseas Realty Ceylon PLC.

 
 
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