අප ගැන

ස්වාධීන නොවන / විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ

Mr. G. A Jayashantha, currently the Deputy General Manager – Chief Risk Officer of the Bank of Ceylon has been appointed to the Board of Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance PLC (MBSL) as Non Independent/Non- Executive Director with effect from 20th April 2021 and serves as Chairman of the Integrated Risk Management Committee of MBSL.

Mr. Jayashantha counts over 24 years of service in the Bank of Ceylon. He has performed duties in the branch banking in the early part of his career and later he has specialized in various business segments such as treasury, Dealing & Primary Dealer Unit (PDU), Assets & Liabilities Management Unit (ALM), Risk Management, Corporate Recovery, Offshore Banking and Branch Operations. He has held the positions of Assistant General Manager – Corporate Recovery, Risk Management, Western Province – South & Offshore Banking and Deputy General Manager – Retail Banking Range – II in the Bank of Ceylon.

Mr. Jayashantha serves as a Director of BoC Property Development & Management (Pvt.) Ltd since 24th February 2020. He also serves as a member/an observer to various management committees and Board Sub Committees and shares experiences in policy matters/strategic decisions at the Bank of Ceylon.

Graduated from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka in 1994 with a B.Sc. Business Administration (Special) degree in First Class, he also holds a degree in Master of Arts in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo and a Diploma in Credit Management. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka.

ස්වාධීන නොවන / විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ

Mr. Jehaan Ismail, holds a BSc (Chemistry) with honours from the University of Colombo and is
a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Banking, UK. He has attended several training and
development programmes conducted by HSBC with special emphasis on management training,
corporate banking, asset management, stockbroking, corporate finance, risk management,
compliance and operations. He has also attended external management and leadership
development programmes at INSEAD and Cranfield. He has been a visiting lecturer (Institute of
Bankers) teaching Practice of Banking and Trade Finance and has delivered several banking
related presentations to various external parties.

He possesses over 41 years of extensive commercial and investment banking experience, mainly
in Asia and also in countries in the Western Hemisphere and the Middle East. His experience
ranges from managing boutique and full-service investment banks to managing corporate banking
divisions, various country operations, international trade divisions, control (audit) functions,
compliance and risk management units, as well as having spent over 2 years as a training executive.
He has supervised support areas like general operations, IT, property, compliance, legal, fraud
prevention, operational risk, physical security, internal control, business transformation and
business systems. He has also coordinated major system related projects and has been responsible
for the setting up and running of all investment banking support functions.

In banking-related employment, he has held the positions of COO of both HSBC Colombia and
HSBC Saudi Arabia, CEO of SABB Securities (HSBC Group, Saudi Arabia), Senior Vice
President Corporate Banking, HSBC Indonesia and Global Relationship Manager, Corporate
Banking, HSBC Hong Kong. Former employment also includes the posts of CEO of M Power
Capital Limited and CEO of First Capital Holdings PLC.

Mr. Jehaan Ismail, is a non-executive Director of Bank of Ceylon and Chairman to the Hotels
Colombo (1963) Limited. In addition, he currently functions as Chairman M Power Capital
Limited and M Power Capital Securities Limited, both comprising a niche investment bank
specialising in corporate finance, investment advisory and private equity. He also functions as a
Director of Common Well (Private) Limited and Kapitan (Private) Limited, both companies in the
property/hospitality industry and The Little Gym Lanka (Private) Limited.

විධායක නොවන/ ස්වාධීන නොවන අධ්‍යක්ෂ

ආර් එම් එන් ජීවන්ත මහතා ලංකා බැංකුවේ ආයතනික කළමනාකාරීත්වයට 2020 අගෝස්තු පත්කරනු ලැබූ අතර නියෝජ්‍ය සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (ජාත්‍යන්තර, සහ භාණ්ඩාගාර) ලෙස වැඩ භාර ගන්නා ලදී.

ජීවන්ත මහතා ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ උපාධිධාරියෙකු වන අතර, ශාස්ත්‍රපති උපාධියක් ද ලබා ඇත. ගිණුම්කරණය BSc උපාධියක් ද ලබා ඇත. පසුව ඔහු 2008 දී කළමනාකරණය පිලිබඳ පශ්චාත් උපාධිය ලබා ගත්තේය (PIM). ඔහු ශ්‍රී ලංකා බැංකුකරුවන්ගේ ආයතනයේ සහකාර සාමාජිකයෙක් ද වේ.

ජීවන්ත මහතා කළමනාකරණ අභ්‍යාසලාභියෙකු ලෙස 2002 වසරේ ලංකා බැංකුවට බැඳුණු අතර සිල්ලර බැංකුකරණය, ණය කළමනාකරණය සහ මූල්‍ය කළමනාකරණය පිළිබඳ පළපුරුද්දක් ද ලබා ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත්, ඔහුගේ ශක්තිය භාණ්ඩාගාර කළමනාකරණය සහ ආයෝජන බැංකුකරණයේ පිහිටා ඇති අතර ඔහු භාණ්ඩාගාර වෘත්තිය 2008 දී ආරම්භ කළේය. පසුව ඔහු ප්‍රධාන ලංකා බැංකුවේ ප්‍රාථමික අලෙවි නියෝජිත එකකකයේ විධායක නිලධාරී තනතුර දක්වා ඉහළ ගියේය. ඉන් පසුව ඔහු විධායක කළමනාකාරිත්වයේ බැංකු සහකාර සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (භාණ්ඩාගාරය) ලෙස පත් කරන ලදී.

විධායක නොවන/ ස්වාධීන නොවන අධ්‍යක්ෂ

ප්‍රියාල් සිල්වා මහතා 1997 දී කළමනාකරණ අභ්‍යාසලාභියෙකු ලෙස ලංකා බැංකුවට බැඳුණි. ශාඛා බැංකුකරණයේ සිය වෘත්තීය ජීවිතය ආරම්භ කළ අතර වසර 24 කට වැඩි පළපුරුද්දක් ඇත. සිල්ලර හා ජාත්‍යන්තර අංශ ඇතුළුව වාණිජ බැංකුකරණයේ සියලුම අංශවල ණය නිලධාරියෙකු, විගණන නිලධාරියෙකු, ශාඛා කළමණාකරුවෙකු සහ ගනුදෙනු බෙදාහරින්නෙකු ලෙස රාජකාරි ඉටු කරයි.

ඔහු වෙළෙඳ ප්‍රවර්ධන ඒකකයේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කළමණාකරු ලෙසත්, ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කළමනාකරු ලෙසත් කැපී පෙනෙන කාර්යභාරයක් ඉටු කළේය.අඛණ්ඩව වසර 5 කට වැඩි කාලයක් ජාත්‍යන්තර අංශයේ ප්‍රධාන කළමනාකරු. බැංකුවේ ප්‍රධාන තනතුරු සහ අලෙවි අංශයේ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යභාරයක් ඉටු කළේය. බැංකුවේ බොහෝ විධායක කළමනාකරණ කමිටුවල සහ විනය අධිකාරී කමිටුවල ඔහු සාමාජිකයෙක් විය.

ප්‍රියාල් මහතා රුහුණු විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් ව්‍යාපාර උපාධිය ලබා ඇත. පරිපාලනය (අලෙවිකරණය පිළිබඳ විශේෂිත) 2 වන පන්තියේ ඉහළ අංශය සමඟ උපාධිය සහ ඇත. කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් ගණකාධිකරණය පිළිබඳ ව්‍යාපාර පිළිබඳ ශාස්ත්‍රපති උපාධිය ලබා ඇත. ඔහු ව්‍යාපාර පරිපාලනය පිළිබඳ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ඩිප්ලෝමාවක් සහ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ඩිප්ලෝමාවක් දරයි,CIM වෙතින් වෘත්තීය අලෙවිකරණය. ඔහු වරලත් ආයතනයේ සහකාර සාමාජිකයෙකි, අලෙවිකරණය එක්සත් රාජධානිය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා බැංකුකරුවන්ගේ ආයතනය (IBSL).නියෝජ්‍ය සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (ආයතනික සහ අක්වෙරළ බැංකුකරණය) ලෙස පත්වීමට පෙර ඔහු නියෝජ්‍ය ජෙනරාල් ඇතුළු ආයතනික සහ විධායක කළමනාකරණ තනතුරු රාශියක් දැරීය. කළමනාකරු (විකුණුම් සහ නාලිකා කළමනාකරණය), නියෝජ්‍ය සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (මූල්‍ය සහ සැලසුම්),සහ ප්‍රධාන අලෙවි නිලධාරී, සහකාර සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (වයඹ පළාත),සහකාර සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (අලෙවි) සහ සහකාර සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී (බස්නාහිර පළාත- උතුර)

Non-Executive/ Independent Director

Mr Subhash Rajapakse is a corporate and investment banker with over thirty years of industry
experience, including twenty five years in executive roles and twenty years of managerial
experience in the United Arab Emirates.

He brings in a wide range of expertise to the Board of
MBSL.
He began his banking career at Seylan Bank in 1995 within the Corporate Banking Department
and advanced to Senior Manager at Nations Trust Bank, where he managed a portfolio of large
corporate clients with a team of relationship managers. In 2005, he relocated to Dubai, UAE, where
he has furthered his academic and professional career.

Mr Rajapakse has experience in managing large corporates, multinational companies, institutional
clients, government-related entities, and ultra high-net-worth business groups across various
sectors such as real estate, hospitality, contracting, telecommunications, renewable energy, and
payment solutions in the MENA region with leading Middle Eastern banks.
He is skilled in client/deal origination and structuring, revenue optimization, credit risk
management, syndicated debt, and bespoke LMA standard facility documentation.
Mr Rajapakse is a CFA Charterholder, a Qualified Chartered Accountant (FCCA-UK), Post
Graduate Diploma holder from the Insitute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He holds an
MBA from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Additionally, he is an Associate of the Institute
of Bankers of Sri Lanka.

Independent Non-Executive Director

Priyantha Herath is a seasoned finance professional and business leader with over 27 years of extensive experience in finance, strategic management, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, business process re-engineering, and governance across diverse industries including financial services, manufacturing, exports, consultancy, and business process outsourcing.

He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PNB Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, a multiple award-winning Business Process Outsourcing company providing integrated finance and business support solutions to clients in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other international markets.

He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (ACMA). He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Colombo and a BSc in Business Administration (Special) Degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

In addition to his corporate leadership roles, Mr. Herath has contributed significantly to the profession as a visiting lecturer for MBA programmes at both state and private universities and professional accounting bodies. He also serves as a Director of multiple private companies.

ස්වාධීන / විධායක නොවන අධ්‍යක්ෂ

Dulani is a highly skilled professional with over 25 years of demonstrated success in driving growth and profitability across divers industries including manufacturing, technology, energy and healthcare sectors.

In October 2024, Dulani was appointed to the Board of Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka & Finance PLC (MBSL) as a Non-Independent/Non-Executive Director. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Audit Committee and is also a valued member of the Human Resources and Remuneration Committee, as well as the Nomination Committee of MBSL.

As a Fellow member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sr Lanka and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the UK, Dulani combines her deep financial expertise with a broad international perspective.  Her qualifications are further enriched by an Honours Diploma in Psychology, which has enhanced her understanding of human behavior, leadership dynamics and organizational culture allowing her to lead high-performing teams

Dulani’s career is defined by her work in major multinational corporations such as Microsoft, Shell and Ansell where in some roles, she held regional leadership roles that involved overseeing cross-functional teams across multiple countries.  Her experience spans financial management, corporate governance, business transformation, and digital innovation, making her adept at navigating the complexities of global markets.

Most recently, Dulani served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. In this capacity, she played a pivotal role in defining and implementing the Institute’s strategic vision.  Dulani also serves as a member of the Board of Management  of Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board.