Building a Reputation for Integrity, Transparency and Value
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Governance Building a reputation for integrity, transparency and value 21 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Susantha Ratnayake Gihan Cooray Chairman Group Finance Director D N R D Susantha Ratnayake was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of John Gihan Cooray is the Group Finance Director and has overall responsibility Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) in January 2006 has served on the JKH Board for the Group’s Finance and Accounting, Taxation, Corporate Finance since 1992/1993 and has 39 years of management experience, all of and Strategy, Treasury and Information Technology functions (including which is within the John Keells Group. He is a past Chairman of the Sri John Keells IT) and John Keells Research. He is a Director of several Lanka Tea Board, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, and the Employers’ companies in the John Keells Group and a Non-Executive Director of Federation of Ceylon. Nations Trust Bank PLC. Gihan holds an MBA from the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, a certifed management accountant of the Institute of Certifed Management Accountants, Australia and has a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He serves as a Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Krishan Balendra Amal Cabraal Deputy Chairman Non- Executive Director D H R A Krishan Balendra is the Deputy Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC Amal Cabraal is presently the Chairman of Ceylon Beverage Holdings and is responsible for the Leisure and Transportation industry groups, PLC, Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC and CIC Feeds Group of Companies. He John Keells Stock Brokers and John Keells Ofce Automation. He is a is a former Chairman and Chief Executive Ofcer of Unilever Sri Lanka Director of several companies in the John Keells Group and serves as and has over 3 decades of business experience in general management, the Chairman of Nations Trust Bank PLC. He is also the Hon. Consul marketing and sales in Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, India and General of the Republic of Poland in Sri Lanka and a former Chairman Bangladesh. Amal Cabraal is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Colombo Stock Exchange. Krishan started his professional of Hatton National Bank PLC, Sunshine Holdings PLC and Silvermill career at UBS Warburg, Hong Kong, in investment banking, focussing Investment Holdings (Pvt) Ltd. and a member of the Supervisory primarily on equity capital markets. After a four year stint in Hong Kong, Board of Associated Motorways (Private) Ltd. He is also a member of he continued his career in corporate fnance at Aitken Spence PLC, Sri the Monetary Policy Consultative Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, prior to joining JKH. Krishan holds a law degree (LLB) from the Lanka and a committee member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce University of London and an MBA from INSEAD. and serves on the Management Committee of the Mercantile Services Provident Society. A Chartered Marketer by profession and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing - UK, he holds a MBA from the University of Colombo and is an executive education alumnus of INSEAD-France. BOARD COMMITTEES Audit Committee A Human Resources and Compensation Committee H D Refer Group Directory for directorships Nominations Committee N held by Executive Directors in other Related Party Transactions Review Committee R Group companies 22 John Keells Holdings PLC . Annual Report 2017/18 Governance Nihal Fonseka Premila Perera Non- Executive Director Non-Executive Director R A A N R Nihal Fonseka is a career banker and served as the Chief Executive Premila Perera was appointed to the Board of the Company with efect Ofcer/Ex-Ofcio Director of DFCC Bank from 2000 until his retirement from 1 July 2014 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Premila in 2013. He is currently a Member of the Monetary Board of the Central Perera, formerly a Partner, KPMG in Sri Lanka, also served as the Global Bank of Sri Lanka, Non-Executive Director of Phoenix Ventures Pvt Ltd, Firms Regional Tax Director for ASPAC in 2000/01, as a member of the Chairman of the Group Audit Committee of Brandix Lanka Limited and Global Task force commissioned in 1998, to advise the International President of the Sri Lanka National Advisory Council of the Chartered Board of KPMG on future directions in determining long term strategic Institute of Securities and Investments, UK. Prior to joining the DFCC plans, and faculty of the KPMG International Tax Business School. She Bank, he was the Deputy Chief Executive of HSBC Sri Lanka. He is a also served a period of secondment with the US Firm’s National Tax past Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange and the Association of Ofce in Washington DC, and was a participant at the KPMG-INSEAD Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacifc (ADFIAP). He International Banking School programme. She is a Fellow of the Institute has also served as a Director of the Employees’ Trust Fund Board and as of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. She served as an Independent a member of the Presidential Commission on Taxation (2009), National Director and Chairperson of the Audit and Related Party Transaction Procurement Commission and Strategic Enterprise Management Agency Committees of Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC until October 2017 and as (SEMA). He holds a BSc from the University of Ceylon, Colombo, is a a Non-Executive Director of Holcim (Lanka) Limited until August 2016. Fellow of the Institute of Financial Studies, (FIB) UK and a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, (MCSI) UK. Ashroff Omar Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director H N H N Group Chief Executive Ofcer of Sri Lanka’s largest Apparel exporter, In his capacity as the Regional CEO for South Asia, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya Brandix Lanka Limited, Ashrof Omar has been instrumental in heads the South Asian Operations of the Axiata Group Bhd., spanning redefning the Sri Lankan Apparel industry for over four decades. Ashrof Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India. Axiata is Asia’s second spearheads a company that comprises of manufacturing and product largest Telecommunications Group. Up to and including the year 2016, development facilities ofering end-to-end solutions from Tokyo to the he additionally functioned as the Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata US, including UK, Cambodia, Haiti, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh for PLC. He is a past Chairman of GSM Asia Pacifc - the regional interest some of the world’s most renowned brands, with a commitment to group of the GSM Association, and also serves on the Board of the TM ofering ‘Inspired Solutions’ to its clientele. Forum (TMF), and was also honoured by the GSM Association as the frst recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to the Asian Mobile Industry” He is also credited with pioneering environmentally-friendly apparel Award in 2016. manufacture in the world and establishing the world’s frst LEED platinum manufacturing facility for eco-friendly manufacture. His Dr. Wijayasuriya graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1989. extensive experience and ability to think beyond the norm has secured He subsequently obtained his PhD in Digital Mobile Communications him positions in the Boards of some of Sri Lanka’s most respected from the University of Bristol UK in 1994. A Chartered Engineer and corporates. He is also the Founder Chair of the Joint Apparel Association Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology UK, Dr. Wijayasuriya Forum (JAAF), the apex body of the Sri Lankan Apparel industry. also holds an MBA from the University of Warwick, UK. Dr. Wijayasuriya has published widely on the subject of digital mobile communications, including research papers in publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) USA, Royal Society and the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) UK. 23 GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dilani Alagaratnam Jitendra Gunaratne President President Dilani Alagaratnam is a member of the Group Executive Committee of Jitendra Gunaratne is responsible for the Consumer Foods sector. Prior John Keells Holdings PLC, the President with overall responsibility for the to his appointment as President, he overlooked the Plantations and Human Resources, Legal and Secretarial, Corporate Communications, Retail sectors. His 38 years of management experience in the Group also Sustainability and Enterprise Risk Management, and Group Initiatives covers Leisure and Property. He is a Director of Ceylon Cold Stores PLC functions of the Group. She is also a Director of Union Assurance PLC and Keells Food Products PLC and is also the President of the Beverage and several unlisted companies within the John Keells Group. A Lawyer Association of Sri Lanka. He is a member of the Council of the Employers’ by profession, she has been with John Keells Holdings PLC since 1992 Federation of Ceylon and a member of the Food Advisory Committee of and is a law graduate and a holder of a Masters’ Degree in Law. Currently, the Ministry of Health. she is the Chairperson of the Legislation Sub Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, member of the National Labour Advisory Committee, and a Council member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors. Romesh David Suresh Rajendra President President Romesh David is currently seconded to the Group’s ports business as Suresh Rajendra is responsible for the Property industry group of the CEO of South Asia Gateway Terminals. He was the former President John Keells Group and also serves as a Director of Union Assurance PLC of the Transportation Group of JKH and has been with the Group and Asian Hotels and Properties PLC. He has over 23 years of experience for 38 years during which he has served in the Leisure, Domestic in the felds of fnance, property and real estate, travel and tourism, and and International Trade and IT sectors of the Group, in addition to business development acquired both in Sri Lanka and overseas.