Wednesday, April 17, 2019

HNB Assurance and HNB General Insurance appoints board members

HNB Assurance PLC (HNBA) announced the appointments of Damien Fernando and Stuart Chapman as Non-Executive Directors while its subsidiary, HNB General Insurance Limited (HNBGI) announced the appointments of Damien Fernando, Sanjay Wijemanne and Arjuna Abeygunasekara as Non-Executive Directors to the respective Boards.

These appointments have been approved at the recently concluded Company Annual General Meeting and also by the Insurance Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka. The reconstituted Board of HNBA comprises of Rose Cooray as Chairperson, Deepthi Lokuarachchi as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer,Mahendra Jayasekera, Siromi Wickramasinghe, Dr. Sivakumar Selliah, Dilshan Rodrigo, Ravi Abeysuriya, Damien Fernando andStuart Chapman.

The reconstituted Board of HNBGI comprises of Rose Cooray as Chairperson, Deepthi Lokuarachchi as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Faizal Salieh, Dilshan Rodrigo, Marina Tharmaratnam, Damien Fernando, Sanjay Wijemanne and Arjuna Abeygunasekara.

Damien Fernando has held many key positions in several sectors including Finance, Life and General Insurance and has held positions on the Boards of the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Limited, Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka, Lanka Hospital Corporation, Melstacorp, Pelwatte Sugar PLC and National Asset Management Limited. Presently Mr. Fernando is a member of the Boards of the Hatton National Bank, HealthCey Private Limited and Addison Private Limited.

Stuart Chapman with over 38 years of professional experience in industries including Insurance, Merchant Banking, FMCG, Healthcare and Telecommunications, has held several key positions.

Sanjay Wijemanne currently holds the position of Deputy General Manager of Retail Banking at the Hatton National Bank and manages key areas pertaining to Personal Financial Services (Leasing, Pawning, Personal and Housing Loans), Credit Cards, Sales and Business Development, Digital Banking, Network Management, Deposit Mobilization, Marketing Communications, Customer Service, Club and Priority Banking, Inward Remittances and Exchange House Relationships and Bancassurance Channels.

Arjuna Abeygunasekara counts over 20 years of experience in the banking sector including branch banking and treasury management in four leading banks in the country. He currently holds the position of Assistant General Manager - Treasury and Markets of Hatton National Bank PLC. 

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