Legal Status |
Senkadagala Finance is a Public Limited Liability Company incorporated in Sri Lanka under the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, No. 51 of 1938.
The Company was re-registered under the Companies Act, No. 7 of 2007.
Approved and registered under the Finance Business Act No. 42 of 2011.
Approved and registered under the Finance Leasing Act No. 56 of 2000.
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Date of Incorporation |
29th December 1968 |
Company Registration Number |
PB 238 PQ |
Registered Office |
Level 2, 267 Galle Road, Colombo 3 |
Credit Rating |
Fitch Ratings Lanka re-affirmed BBB+(lka) with a stable outlook, in August 2017 |
Auditors |
KPMG, Chartered Accountants 32A, Sir Mohamed Macan Markar Mawatha, Colombo 03 |
Internal Auditors |
Ernst & Young Advisory Services (Pvt) Ltd. 839/2, Peradeniya Road, Kandy, Sri Lanka |
Bankers |
Bank of Ceylon Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC Hatton National Bank PLC Nations Trust Bank PLC
Sampath Bank PLC Seylan Bank PLC Union Bank PLC
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W.M.R.S Dias FCIB (UK), LL.B Chairman |
Ravi Dias, a banker by profession, served Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC for four decades and retired as the Managing Director/Chief
Executive Officer.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers – UK, holds a Degree in Law(LL.B) and is a Hubert H Humphrey Fellow.
Ravi Dias is a Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Boards of Carson Cumberbatch PLC, Tokyo Cement (Lanka) PLC,
Ceylon Tea Marketing Group, South Asia Textile Industries Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. and Seylan Bank PLC, where he was recently appointed Chairman.
Previously he has served on the Boards of LankaClear (Pvt) Ltd., Lanka Financial Services Bureau Ltd., and was a Council Member of the Employers'
Federation of Ceylon.
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Lakshman Balasuriya B.Sc. (Lond.), M.Sc. (Lancaster) Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer |
Lakshman Balasuriya is a Director of Senkadagala Hotels Ltd., E. W. Balasuriya & Co. (Pvt) Ltd. and Thompsons Beach Hotels Ltd.
He holds a B.Sc. (Lond.) and M.Sc. (Lancaster) and has 35 years of experience in finance, hotels and other commercial fields. He is the Managing
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Senkadagala Finance PLC.
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Sanath Divale Bandaranayake B.Sc. (University of Sri Lanka) Executive Director |
Sanath Bandaranayake joined the Company
after his retirement from Commercial
Bank of Ceylon PLC, the largest and the
most awarded bank in Sri Lanka, having
completed 36 years of service.
He has served the Bank in various
capacities such as Branch Manager
(Kandy, City Office), Chief Manager,
Assistant General Manager and Deputy
General Manager (Operations) and was
a core member of the Management
teams which led the Bank to important
milestones: i.e. introducing the Banking
Software to the bank’s operations which is
used even today, introduction of Holiday
Banking, Supermarket Banking and a
24-hour banking service.
During his career at the Bank he was
appointed as Director at LankaClear
and also served as Director of Commex
Sri Lanka S.R.L. (subsidiary of Commercial
Bank based in Italy) and OneZero
Company Ltd. (subsidiary of Commercial
Bank engaged in the business of
Information Technology).
Sanath Bandaranayake holds a Bachelor’s
Degree in Physical Sciences from the
University of Sri Lanka, Vidyodaya Campus
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Mr. N. Vasantha Kumar M.B.A Independent Non-Executive Director |
Mr. N. Vasantha Kumar holds a Master of Business Administration and Diploma in Professional
Treasury Management. He was the former CEO/General Manager of People’s Bank and served
as Treasurer at ANZ Grindlays Bank, Colombo for many years.
Currently He is the Chairman of Safe Holding (Pvt) Ltd and Director of Ceylinco Insurance PLC and
a Past President of the Association of Primary Dealers and Sri Lanka Forex Association.
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Senanayakege Raja Pushpakumara B.Com(Special)( University Of Sri Jayawardenepura ) Independent Non-Executive Director |
Raja Senanayake is a Fellow member of CA Sri Lanka
with over 25 years of post- qualifying experience
and also holds a bCom (Special) degree from the University Of Sri Jayawardenepura
and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management from the Postgraduate
Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayawardeneptira.
Having completed his articles at M/s Ernst and
Young and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant,
he joined Singer Industries PLC in 1991 as the
Financial Accountant.In 1994, he joined Commercial
Bank of Ceylon PLC as the Senior Manager Finance where he worked for
13 years arid was the Assistant General Manager (Finance & Planning)
when he resigned to join the Nations Trust Bank PLC aa the Chief financial Officer.
He resigned from the bank in 2009 and spent one year in New Zealand.
Since his resignation from the Bank, he works for
Smart Media - The Annual Report Company helping it on all aspects of annual
report production, He is also a Director of Serendib Finance Ltd.,
a fully owned subsidiary of Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC.
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Dr Roshan Perera Ph.D (Melb), MPA (Harvard) Independent Non-Executive Director |
Dr Roshan Perera is a public policy specialist with 20+ years of experience in formulating
and implementing monetary and fiscal policy. She also has expertise in regulating and
supervising financial institutions and in helping strengthen approaches to managing risks.
She was a Director at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and presently works as an independent
consultant to multilateral agencies both in Sri Lanka and abroad. She has also served on many
boards including the Institute of Policy Studies and the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors.
She recently completed a Master in Public Administration as an Edward S Mason Fellow at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University USA, 2020. She also has a PhD in Economics from the University of
Melbourne Australia, a Master in Environmental Geography from the University of Illinois in
Chicago Chicago, IL, USA and a Master in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from
the University of Colombo.
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Dr Asoka Balasuriya B.Sc. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Lond.) Director |
Dr. Asoka Balasuriya holds a B.Sc. (Lond.) and a Ph.D. (Lond.) and has over 31 years of experience in the field of gem and
jewellery. He is also a Director of Senkadagala Hotels Ltd., Thompsons Beach Hotels Ltd., and is the Chairman of
E. W. Balasuriya & Co. (Pvt) Ltd.
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Lakshmi Fernando B.Sc. (Hons.) Director |
Lakshmi Fernando holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) and has over 18 years of experience in the field of finance as well as in hotel management. She is a Director
of Thompsons Beach Hotels Ltd., Senkadagala Hotels Ltd., and E.W. Balasuriya & Co. (Pvt) Ltd.
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