Dr. Sena Yaddehige Dr. Sena Yaddehige is a scientist/engineer and a Swiss-based entrepreneur. He developed the largest automotive sensor business in the UK, based on technology developed by himself with a large number of world-wide patents, with manufacturing units in China and Brazil. He is also a high energy radiation specialist with various patents on radiation processing.
He is Founder, Chairman and Director of numerous companies; his current positions in Sri Lanka include Chairman of Richard Pieris
Exports PLC, Maskeliya Plantations PLC, Kegalle Plantations PLC, Namunukula Plantations PLC and Director of National Development Bank PLC. Dr. Yaddehige is presently a Director of a Swiss Phamaceutical Company. He is the Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
Mr. P. D. Samarasinghe Mr. Pravir Samarasinghe is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in UK and holds an MBA.
He joined the Board of Richard Pieris & Company PLC in 2000. He is a Director of several quoted and unquoted companies. He is a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Sri Lanka) and Council Member CIMA UK. He is the Vice Chairman of the Industrial Association of Sri Lanka, and Committee Member of The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the National Labour Advisory Council. He is the Chief Operating Officer of the Group.
Mr. J. H. P. Ratnayeke - Deputy Chairman Mr. Paul Ratnayeke is a leading commercial lawyer and the Senior Partner and Founder of the firm Paul Ratnayeke Associates. He graduated with honors from the University of Ceylon (Colombo) and has also been awarded a LLM degree by the University of London. He is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He is a Director of the Board of Directors of several listed, public and private companies including the Richard Pieris Group and Asia Capital Group.
Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Fellow of the Society of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka. He is the Former Chairman and Director General of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, former Chairman of People’s Bank, People’s Merchant Bank, State Mining and Mineral Development Corporation and the Ceylon Leather Products Corporation and a Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
He is also President of the Society of Certified Management Accountants-Sri Lanka. Past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and South Asian Federation of Accountants, Founder President AAT Sri Lanka and Past President- Organisation of Professional Associations of Sri Lanka. He also serves on the Board of Directors of several public listed companies.
Prof. Susantha Pathirana Prof. Susantha Pathirana is a graduate in Production Engineering from the University of Peradeniya with a MSc in Automatic Control and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology - U.K, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers - Sri Lanka and a Member of the Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineers – U.S.A. He is the former Head of the Department of Production Engineering and former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Production Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Mr. M. M. Udeshi Mr. Morarji Udeshi Joined C V Bhatt Group of Companies in 1947. He was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the C V Bhatt Group in 1991, Asha Phillip Securities Ltd, and C T Land Development Ltd.