Mr Rajan Brito is Deputy
Chairman and Managing Director of Aitken Spence
& Company Limited. He joined the Board of DFCC
Bank in March 2005.
Mr Brito is also Chairman of DFCC Vardhana Bank
Limited.
He is a former Chairman of Sri Lankan Airlines and
was a Former Member of the Strategic Enterprise Management
Agency (SEMA) and post-tsunami Presidential Task
Force for Rebuilding the Nation (TAFREN)
He is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He also
holds a Bachelors Degree in Law and a Masters Degree
in Business Administration. He brings with him a
wealth of management expertise having served in
local and international companies such as Pricewaterhouse,
British EverReady PLC, Minmetco Group, World Bank
and the Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC).
Mr T
Caglayan
Director
Mr Turan
Caglayan is Head of New Business Asia for
the German Investment Development Company - DEG
which offers a full package of services to promote
private enterprise in Africa, Asia and Latin America
as well as Central and Eastern Europe. He joined
the Board of DFCC Bank in August 1999.
Mr Caglayan started his career with Deutsche
Bank, Frankfurt. In 1992, he joined DEG as an
Investment Manager responsible for project management
and acquisition of new projects in India, China,
the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. As a
Senior Investment Manager, Mr Caglayan took over
responsibilities for projects in several European
countries as well.
In 1999, Mr Caglayan started his duties as Head
of Department for South Asia, the Philippines
and Turkey. As Head of Portfolio Management he
now holds responsibility for a portfolio of nearly
Euro one billion.
Mr G G R Dalchow
Alternate Director to T Caglayan
Currently, Director of the Colombo Office of Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) of Germany. KfW
Banking Group is one of the ten biggest banks in Germany, with a balance sheet total of EUR376 billion as at
31 December 2007. He joined KfW in 1987 and was Senior Project Manager for development projects in South
and East Asia. After the German re-unification, he was advisor to the former Central Bank of East Germany and
was assigned to the Treuhandanstalt, Berlin, an institution for the reconstruction of East German public owned
enterprises. He also served as the Director of the KfW office in Beijing.
A Financial Analyst, Tax Counsel and Certified Public Accountant, he aslo has MBA.
Mrs S Cooray
Government Director
Director General of the Department of External Resources of the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Served on
the Boards of the Sri Lanka Electricity Company (Pvt) Limited, Sri Lanka Tourist Board, Board of Investment
and the National Development Bank.
She holds a B A (Hons) and B Phil, from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a M A in Economic
Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Mr A
N Fonseka
Cheif Executive Officer
Ex-Officio Director
Mr Nihal Fonseka
is a career banker and joined the Board of DFCC
Bank in January 2000 with his appointment as Chief
Executive.
Mr Fonseka is a Director of Commercial Bank of Ceylon
Limited, Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka
and is the Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange.
He is also a Member of the Governing Board of the
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM)
and the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM),
Sri Lanka. He served on the Advisory Committee on Finance and Banking of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Insurance and Financial
Services Committee of the National Chamber of Commerce
of Sri Lanka.
He is a Member of the Financial Sector, Taxation
and Legal Reforms Clusters of the National Council
for Economic Development (NCED) and Co-Chair of
the Capital Markets Cluster of NCED. In recent years
he has served as a Member of the Government's Strategic
Enterprise Management Agency, the post-tsunami Presidential
Task Force for Rebuilding the Nation and the Task
Force on SMEs. He is also a Member of the National
Payments Council.
He is a Graduate of the University of Ceylon, Colombo
and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers,
UK.
Mr S
N P Palihena
Director
Mr S N P Palihena is the Former General
Manager of the Bank of Ceylon. He has had a distinguished
banking career extending over 40 years at the
Bank of Ceylon. He joined the Board of DFCC Bank
in October 2002.
He also serves as a Director on the Boards of
several public/private companies. Mr Palihena
has wide experience in all aspects of commercial
banking, having headed important business units
of the Bank of Ceylon. He has also worked at the
National Development Bank of Sri Lanka for a period
of two and a half years.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers,
UK and a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, Sri
Lanka. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Financial Administration.
Mr Chrisantha Perera
Director
Mr Chrishantha Perera retired
as Chairman/CEO of Forbes & Walker in June
2005 after a career spanning 44 years. He joined
the Board of DFCC Bank in July 2005.
Mr Perera currently serves on the Committee of
the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and is a Director
of the Sri Lanka Business Development Centre.
He is also on the Boards of two Plantation Companies
and their respective Holding Companies and is
the Chairman of Avondale Tea Factories (Pvt) Limited and Anglo Ceylon Estates (Pvt) Limited.
He is a serving Committee Member of the Hill Club,
Nuwara Eliya and the Colombo Rowing Club.
Mr Perera was a former Chairman of the Bank of
Ceylon, Sri Lanka Insurance Limited, Sri Lanka
Tea Board and the Public Enterprises Reform Commission
(PERC).
Mr D
S Weerakkody
Director
Mr Dinesh Weerakkody was a former Chairman/CEO of
the Employees Trust Fund Board, Sri Lanka, and Advisor
to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from January
2003 to April 2004. He joined the Board of DFCC
Bank in June 2003.
Mr Weerakkody was the Director, Human Resources
of GlaxoSmithKline, Sri Lanka from January 1998
to November 2005. He is currently the Managing Director
of Cornucopia Sri Lanka, and a Director of GlaxoSmithKline,
Sri Lanka and Commercial Bank of Ceylon Limited.
Mr Weerakkody is an eminent writer and a leading
economic commentator who holds a Masters Degree
in Business Administration from the University of
Leicester, England. He is an Associate of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), UK.
He is also a Council Member of CIMA,
Sri Lanka Division. He has received extensive training
at the Institute of World Affairs in the USA and
Matsushita Institute of Government and Management
in Japan.
Mr
G P Karunaratne
Director
Mr Gamini Karunaratne retired as Senior Deputy
General Manager - International and Investment Banking, Hatton
National Bank Limited in May 2006. He joined the
Board of DFCC Bank in June 2006.
Mr Karunaratne counts over 40 years of banking
experience, specializing in International Trade
Finance, Treasury Operations and Investment Banking.
He is a founder member and a past President of
the Sri Lanka Forex Association and a former director
of HNB Securities Limited and HNB Stockbrokers
(Pvt) Ltd. He has also served as a member of the
consultative Committee to the Central Bank of
Sri Lanka for the Development of the Financial
Market in Sri Lanka.
Mr Karunartne is a Fellow of the Chartered Management
Institute, UK. He is the immediate Past President of the Sri Lanka Branch of the Chartered Management Institute, UK.
Deshabandu
Ajit Jayaratne
Director
Deshabandu Ajit Jayaratne retired after many years
of service as Chairman of Forbes and Walker Limited,
He joined the Board of Directors of DFCC Bank
in September 2005 and is currently the Chairman of the Apollo Hospital, Colombo.
Currently, Mr Jayaratne serves on the Boards of
several public companies. Mr Jayaratne has served
as Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange, the
Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and as the Finance
Commission. Recently, he served as Sri Lanka's
High Commissioner in Singapore.
Mr Jayaratne is a Chartered Accountant by profession
and holds a Degree in Economics.
