Company Secretary
Mr. Prasanna Indrajith serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC and counts a total of 26 years of post-qualified experience in finance-related fields including 24 years in banking.
He is a Fellow member of the CA Sri Lanka, ACCA, and CMA Sri Lanka. He holds a Degree in Business Administration (Special) from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
He serves as a Director of Commercial Insurance Brokers (Pvt) Ltd.
Director
Mr. Chinthaka Dharmasena is a corporate management professional with over three decades of extensive expertise in service operations, supply chain management, and sustainability initiatives across both multinational corporations and leading Sri Lankan enterprises. Mr. Dharmasena was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director, effective January 1, 2026.
Mr. Dharmasena has been serving as Assistant General Manager – Services at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC since 2013, as a member of the Bank’s Corporate Management Team with accountability for centralized service operations encompassing Procurement, Security, Premises/Facilities, and Logistics. Under his leadership, Commercial Bank became the first bank in Sri Lanka to achieve carbon-neutral status across its entire operations scope. He was also instrumental in the Bank winning the overall Best Corporate Citizen Award in 2021 and securing the runner-up position in 2024.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Dharmasena spent 17 years with Ceylon Tobacco Company (British American Tobacco), where he held senior positions including Head of Operations and Head of Supply Chain Management. He served on the British American Tobacco International Audit Team and led critical projects across BAT operations in the USA, Malaysia, and South Africa.
Mr. Dharmasena holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) and a BSc (Eng) Hons from the University of Moratuwa. His professional qualifications include ISO 9000 Lead Auditor certification, International Certification in Purchasing and Supply Management, and Supply Chain Excellence qualification from Cranfield University, UK.
He has also contributed to academia as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Transport and Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa, and formerly at CINEC Campus.
Director
Mr. Abeysuriya was appointed to the Board as Director in March 2024 and serves as a Non -Executive Independent Director. He is a member of the Board Audit Committee, the Board Nominations and Governance Committee, and the Board Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Abeysuriya graduated with a BSc in Engineering with second-class honours, specialising in Civil Engineering, from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Peradeniya in 1987. He started his career as an Instructor at the faculty of Engineering and then joined the Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau and worked at Samanalawewa Hydro Electric project for four years. After working in both government and private sector for more than a decade, Mr. Abeysuriya established NCD Consultants (Pvt) Ltd as a start-up Structural Engineering Consultancy practice in 1997. NCD is providing structural Engineering consultancy services for large-scale projects including high-rise buildings and buildings with deep basements. NCD has extended their services for overseas projects, especially in India, Oman and Maldives.
Mr. Abeysuriya obtained his Master of Engineering degree at the University of Moratuwa, specialising in Structural Engineering Design which he completed in 2005. He obtained his Chartered Engineer status from the Institution of Engineers’ Sri Lanka (IESL) in 1991 and is a Certified Structural Engineer authorised to design buildings of more than 20 Storeys (High-rise). Mr. Abeysuriya was inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers’ Sri Lanka in 2010 followed by the International Professional Engineer (IntPE) status in the same year. He is a Fellow member of the Society of Structural Engineers-Sri Lanka (2015). He is a Chartered member of the Engineering New Zealand (2023).
Moreover, Mr. Abeysuriya currently participates as an exam panel member for High Rise building category registration at IESL. Also he contributes to the Construction Industry Development Authority (CIDA) as a Credential Committee member.
Mr. Abeysuriya is representing the Industry at Department -Industry consultative boards for a few universities. Moreover, He serves as an external member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa. Further, Mr. Abeysuriya is a past President of the Society of Structural Engineers’ Sri Lanka (SSESL) (2019 to 2021) and the First President of Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Alumni Association (PEFAA) – Colombo Chapter. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Association of Consulting Engineers -Sri Lanka.
Director
Mr. Withana was appointed to the Board as a Director in March 2024 and serves as a Non -Executive Independent Director. He is a member of the Board Audit Committee, the Board Nominations and Governance Committee, and the Board Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Withana has held senior management positions in the corporate sector for over 30 years, in which more than 20 years were at senior management levels in Banking, Manufacturing and Trade. He has worked with Brandix, Ernst & Young, Amro Bank, IBM World Trade Corporation, Carson Cumberbatch and Yamaha Corporation, USA. He served as a CEO/VP at Brandix for nearly 19 years, CEO of Orit Apparels Ltd, COO of Dilmah Tea/MJF group and last as the CEO of Sri Lankan Catering Ltd.
Previously he had served on the boards of Bank of Ceylon, Dankotuwa Porcelain, Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka, Ceylease Limited and Seylan Bank. He has also been a Commissioner of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
Currently he is the Managing Director of Agility Consulting Services (Pvt) Ltd. and Serves in the Bords of Softlogic Insurance PLC and HNB Finance PLC.
Mr. Lalith Withana holds a MBA Degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Colombo and a BA Hons. Degree from the University of Manchester Metropolitan, UK. He is a fellow member of both CIMA, UK, and CA Sri Lanka. He is also a Project Management Professional of PMI USA.
Director
Dr. Attalage was appointed to the Board as a Director on the 01st of January 2023 and serves as a Non-Executive Independent Director.
He is currently a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He was the former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, and was a Senior Professor attached to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa. He obtained his B.Sc. Engineering (Hons) Degree from the University of Moratuwa specializing in Mechanical Engineering, M.Eng in Energy Technology from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, D.E.A. and PhD from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris in Energy Engineering.
He is a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, a Member American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASH RAE), a Corporate Member and Past President of Sri Lanka Energy Managers Association, Fellow & President of the Lanka Association of Building Services Engineers (LABSE), Member of the Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science (SLAAS), Fellow and a Council Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka.
He was bestowed by the honorary distinction for an academic “Order of the Academic Palms”, by the Government of France, in 2018.
He has also served as a Commissioner member of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka, the Chairman National Institute of Fisheries & Nautical Engineering and has served as a visiting faculty member of AIT, Thailand and as a Visiting Professor at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan and has served in many national committees notably related to Building Energy Efficiency standards & Labels development. He has worked as a consultant to several World Bank, ADB and Nexant Inc. on Energy-related assignments.
Chairman
Mr. Fernando is a professional banker, who retired from active service in the banking sector in August 2020. With a career spanning over 35 years at the Bank of Ceylon (BOC), he played many prominent roles in the Recoveries Department and the Product Development Banking Unit, where he had initiated a number of noteworthy, innovative liability and asset products. He has vast experience in branch banking, customer service, and corporate/retail credit in rural and urban branches for over 14 years.
He also has training/exposure in international and treasury operations, which he gained during his service at the BOC London Branch and as a Member of expatriate staff at the BOC Karachi Branch which is now non-operational in Pakistan. He has also managed 70 BOC branches for 4 years as the Assistant General Manager in charge of the Western Province South (the largest administrative region of BOC at the time), before taking up the assignment at Bank of Ceylon (UK) Ltd, as the Chief Executive Officer/ Director in late 2012.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hon.) degree from the University of Colombo and served briefly on the academic staff of the (then) Batticaloa University College. He also worked under the Ministry of Education as an Education Officer in “Sri Lanka Education Service” before joining the BOC in 1986. He is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka since 1998.
He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Board of Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, appointed in February 2023.
Mr. Fernando was a Director of Property Development and Management (Pvt) Ltd, BOC Travels (Pvt) Ltd, and Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka PLC. He was also an Independent Director of Cey Bank Holiday Homes (Pvt) Ltd and the General Manager during two distinct periods. Additionally, he also served as the Director and Chairman of MBSL Insurance (Pvt) Ltd.
His past appointments included Chief Executive Officer of Grand Oriental Hotel, Chief Risk Officer (Deputy General Manager) of Bank of Ceylon, Sri Lanka and Chief Executive Officer and Director of BOC, UK.
Mr. Chinthaka Dharmasena is a corporate management professional with over three decades of extensive expertise in service operations, supply chain management, and sustainability initiatives across both multinational corporations and leading Sri Lankan enterprises. Mr. Dharmasena was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director, effective January 1, 2026.
Mr. Dharmasena has been serving as Assistant General Manager – Services at Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC since 2013, as a member of the Bank’s Corporate Management Team with accountability for centralized service operations encompassing Procurement, Security, Premises/Facilities, and Logistics. Under his leadership, Commercial Bank became the first bank in Sri Lanka to achieve carbon-neutral status across its entire operations scope. He was also instrumental in the Bank winning the overall Best Corporate Citizen Award in 2021 and securing the runner-up position in 2024.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Dharmasena spent 17 years with Ceylon Tobacco Company (British American Tobacco), where he held senior positions including Head of Operations and Head of Supply Chain Management. He served on the British American Tobacco International Audit Team and led critical projects across BAT operations in the USA, Malaysia, and South Africa.
Mr. Dharmasena holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) and a BSc (Eng) Hons from the University of Moratuwa. His professional qualifications include ISO 9000 Lead Auditor certification, International Certification in Purchasing and Supply Management, and Supply Chain Excellence qualification from Cranfield University, UK.
He has also contributed to academia as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Transport and Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa, and formerly at CINEC Campus.
