MR. Ray Abeywardena has been associated with Sri Lanka’s capital markets for over 33 years, primarily as a Stockbroker and since 2009 as an Investment Banker.
He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Wales.
Other Current Appointments
- Managing Director of Acuity Partners (Pvt) Ltd.
- Chairman of Acuity Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd and Acuity Securities Ltd
- Independent Non- Executive Director of Softlogic Insurance PLC.
- Director of Lanka Ventures PLC, Lanka Energy Fund PLC and Guardian Acuity Asset Management Ltd (GAAM).
Previous Appointments
- Served as the Managing Director/CEO of Acuity Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd from 2001 to end 2008.
- Past Chairman of the Colombo Stockbrokers Association.
Mr. Kosala Gamage has considerable experience in the Sri Lankan stock market with over 27 years of experience in handling local and foreign investments.
Other Current Appointments
- Managing Director of Lanka Securities Pvt Ltd which is a joint venture Stockbroking Company of the Bank of Ceylon group and First Capital Securities Corporation, Pakistan.
- A Board member of Renuka Consultants (Pvt) Ltd.
Previous Appointments - President of the Colombo Stockbrokers Association (CSBA) from the year 2019 to 2021.
A Senior Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Sri Lanka and a Chartered Global Management Accountant with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colombo, a MBA from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom and a Master of Arts in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo.
Mr. Herath has extensive industry experience of over two decades in serving numerous clients in the Public Sector and in the Private Sector and actively involved in areas of Economy, Capital Markets, Investments, Corporate Transformation & Restructuring, Corporate Planning, Performance Improvement, Corporate Governance, Technology, Accounting, Auditing, Professional Accountancy Organizations
Other Current Appointments
- Senior Partner and Head of Advisory Ernst & Young, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
- Chairman of the Professional Accountancy Organisation Development Committee of the IFAC.
Previous Appointments
- A Board Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board.
- A Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka.
- Marketing Development Manager at Ceylon Tobacco Company
- Director Corporate Finance at Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka Ltd.
- Past President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.
- Past President of the South Asian Federation of Accountants.
- Board Member of the Confederation of Asia Pacific Accountants
An Attorney with over 20 years international experience in Cyber Law, with expertise in Digital Payments & e-Commerce, International trade, Cyber Security/ Cyber Crime, Intellectual Property Rights & Software licensing, E-banking & Mobile Banking, Digitization of capital markets, Dispute resolution in ICT Projects and negotiating contracts for large digital solutions.
Mr. Jayantha Fernando pioneered drafting of Sri Lanka’s digital laws, including Electronic transactions, Digital Payments, Cybercrime as well as Data Protection and Cyber Security Legislation. Drafted the Legal blueprint for the establishment of ICT Agency, Sri Lanka CERT and the use of authentication technologies at national and sectoral level at Lanka Clear, through Central Bank.
He led Sri Lanka’s entry to the Budapest Cybercrime Convention and Sri Lanka’s ratification of the UN Electronic Communications Convention (UN eCC) in 2015, both firsts for South Asia. Expert for UNCITRAL, Council of Europe and World Bank advising countries formulate Digital Laws.
Mr. Fernando holds a specialized Masters in Law (LLM) in IT & Telecommunications Law from the University London, read on a Chevening Scholarship awarded by UK Government.
Other Current Appointments
- Chairman, LK Internet Domain Name Registry
- Co-Chair, National Certificate Authority Task Force for Digital Authentication Services
- Director, Sri Lanka CERT & Director/ Legal Advisor, ICTA
- Elected Bureau Member, Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY), Strasbourg, France
Previous Appointments
- Chairman, Sri Lanka CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team)
- Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka
- Board Director, Sri Lanka Standards Institution
- Consultant on Digital Laws, Attorney General’s Chamber, Republic of Fiji
- Vice Chair, Government Advisory Committee, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), California, USA
- Associate Chairman, ICANN Nominations Committee
An Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor (England & Wales) with over 42 years of experience in the field of Corporate/Securities Law and Capital Markets activities – Managing Public Share Issues and other Corporate Fundraising Activities, Privatizations, Takeovers & Merges, Restructuring, Amalgamations, Repurchase of shares, Debenture Issues, Issues of Warrants, Different Classes of Shares - for Listing, De-Listing of companies and advising Corporates on Continuing Listing Requirements
Current Appointments Chairperson/Consultant - P W Corporate Secretarial (Pvt) Ltd., Independent Director of JAT Holdings PLC, Kapruka Holdings PLC, Associated Electrical Corporation (Private) Limited, and member of the Law Commission.
Previous Appointments Director - Associated Motorways PLC, Abans Electricals PLC, Asia Asset Finance PLC, LOLC Finance PLC Forbes & Walker Limited, Forbes Financial Services Limited (subsequently referred to as Vanik Corporate Services Limited), Forbes Stockbrokers Limited, Forbes Ceylon PLC, Forbes Air Services Limited, Capital Reach Holdings Limited, Senior Vice President (Legal) Vanik Incorporation Limited and Per Pro – Forbes & Walker Limited .
Legal Consultant to the Ministry of Finance (2002 -2004), Legal Consultant – Colombo Stock Exchange (2004 – 2011)
Member of the SEC Committee on Takeovers and Mergers, Member of Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Well known ICT industry veteran and experienced business leader Channa de Silva currently functions as the Chief Executive Officer of LankaPay, which he took over in December 2015. Mr. de Silva has been instrumental for the phenomenal growth achieved by the company in promoting digital payments and spearheaded the introduction of several innovative payment solutions during his tenure. He is also a member of the National Payment Council of the Central Bank, a Board Member of Sri Lanka CERT and the Central Depository System (CDS) of the CSE, Vice Chairman of FITIS and a member of the National Certification Authority Task Force.
Mr. de Silva counts for over 30 years’ experience encompassing a spectrum of industries and had served in several leading multinational and local organizations as well.
He goes down in history as Sri Lanka’s first ever webmaster with the development of Sri Lanka’s first commercial web site http://www.lanka.net/ (1994) and the engineer responsible for the establishment of the first ever dedicated Internet connection in Sri Lanka in 1995. Some of the major projects implemented under his leadership include the first online newspaper in the South Asia region (Daily News in 1995); first radio station on-line (TNL Radio in 1996) and first ever Wi-Fi network in the country; He was also a member of the local language workgroup of Sri Lanka and contributed immensely towards enabling people to use technology in local languages. He also played a pivotal role in ensuring that a Language Interface Pack was built in Sinhala and Tamil for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in 2007. He was recognized for his contributions by the Internet Society as a technology pioneer in 2015.
Prior to joining LankaPay, he headed the Sri Lankan and Maldivian operations of multinational ICT consultancy company Thakral One as the Senior Vice President. He was orchestral in introducing IBM’s software universe to Sri Lanka and developing IBM’s software business during his tenure as the DGM – Software Group of IBM Sri Lanka. Mr. de Silva also served as the Director - Enterprise Business and Public Sector at Microsoft Sri Lanka where he led the company through an unprecedented growth. His outstanding achievements were rewarded via the Microsoft Gold Club Excellence Award for exceptional performance and the Microsoft Share Fighter Champion for winning against competition.
An Old boy of Royal Collage Colombo, Mr. de Silva obtained his BSc. (Honours) and MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the State University of New York, USA specialized in Data Communication. He also holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) Sri Lanka and the distinguished memberships at the IEEE (USA), Tau Beta Pai (USA), Eta Kappa Nu (USA) and Golden Key (USA) for academic excellence.
