Leadership
The Leadership
Profiles of the Board of Directors.
Non-Executive Non-Independent Director
Attorney at Law, LLB(Ceylon), LLM, M.Phil. (Colombo) and LLD (Honoris Causa)
Dr. J.M. Swaminathan is an Attorney-at-Law with over 55 years in practice. He was the former Senior Partner of Messrs. Julius & Creasy. He is a Member of the Office for Reparations Sri Lanka. He has served as a Member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and Member of the Council of Legal Education and the Council of the University of Council. He is also a Member of the Company Law Advisory Commission and The Intellectual Property Law Advisory Commission. He is the Chairman of the Board of Studies of the Council of Legal Education and also a Consultant at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the Council of Legal Education. He is a Member of the Visiting Faculty of the LLM Course of the University of Colombo. He also serves on the Boards of several public and private companies.
Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director
Dr. (Mrs.) Y. Ponnambalam is a Medical Doctor (Retired) and a Director of Gee Gee Properties (Pvt) Ltd and Geetanjali Gajaluckshmi (Pvt) Ltd.
Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director
Mr. G.G. Ponnambalam is an Attorney-at-Law and a Director of Gee Gee Properties (Pvt) Ltd and Geetanjali Gajaluckshmi (Pvt) Ltd. He serves as a member of parliament.
Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director
Dr. (Mrs.) M. Ponnambalam is an Ophthalmologist qualified in UK and also a Director of Gee Gee Properties (Pvt) Ltd and Geetanjali Gajaluckshmi (Pvt) Ltd.
Non-Executive Non-Independent Director
Mr. T. Someswaran a Chartered Accountant, in practice for more than 35 years and retired from the post of Senior Partner of SJMS Associates, a Firm of Accountants which is associated with Deloitte’s in Sri Lanka. He is also a Fellow member of CMA and a member of its Governing Council. He is in the Audit Committee Forum of the SL Inst. of Directors. He serves on the Boards of CleanCo Lanka Ltd., Renewgen (Pvt) Ltd., ECSAT (Equality-based Community Support & Training), Chairman Institute for Development of Commercial Law & Practice. He also serves as a Director of the Center for Advancement of Resource Mobilization (CARM).
Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director
Mr. Ramesh Schaffter is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Janashakthi Limited and a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of Janashakthi Insurance PLC. Counting over three decades of experience in Finance & Marketing, Mr. Ramesh Schaffter is a Fellow Member and former Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Sri Lanka, and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was appointed to the Board in 2004, having served as Secretary to the Board since the inception of the Company in 1994, a position he held until 2017. He has also served on the Boards of several public listed and unlisted companies.
Independent Non- Executive Director
Mr. Mohan Ratnayake is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK and has read for an MBA. He was the Chairman of the committee which issued Sri Lanka’s first internationally listed USD Bond by a corporate entity- Sri Lanka Telecom PLC which traded on the Singapore stock exchange, for the expansion of SLT and Mobitel. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Colonial Motors Ceylon Ltd. He also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of C M Holdings PLC and ACL Plastics PLC, UB Finance PLC, Swisstek PLC, Lanka Tiles PLC. He was the Chairman of Lanka Realty PLC (resigned with effect from 30th September 2024). He also serves on several Boards and chairs Audit Committees and other Statutory Committees.
Independent Non- Executive Director
Prashan Nagendra holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University and a Master’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Nottingham. With an extensive background in the technology sector, Prashan began his career as an IT Consultant at KPMG. He later joined Singapore Telecom/Lycos in Singapore, where he served as Business Development Manager, focusing on software services. In 2003, Prashan joined EFutures (Pvt) Ltd as an equity partner. Under his leadership as CEO, EFutures has grown to a team of over 200 professionals, serving blue-chip clients across the United States and Europe. His expertise spans software development, IT consulting, and strategic business growth within the technology industry.