Harin, Shamalie appointed to DFCC Bank Board

DFCC Bank PLC has announced the appointment of Harin De Silva Wijeyeratne and H.M.N. Shamalie Gunawardana to its Board as No-Executive Independent Directors, with effect from 1 July. De Silva Wijeyeratne is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.

Harin De Silva Wijeyeratne

H.M.N. Shamalie Gunawardana

He counts over 28 years of experience in the fields of general management, financial

management and auditing – which has been acquired while being employed at Investcorp Bank, Bahrain, Grindlays Bahrain Bank, Ernst & Young, Bahrain and Ernst & Young, Sri Lanka. 

In addition, he has held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology Ltd. (SLINTEC) for over 5 years (2013-2019). He is currently an Independent Director of Union Assurance PLC, and is the Chairman of the Board Audit and Compliance Committee. 

He currently also holds the position of the Audit Committee Chairman of MAS Holdings and is a business consultant for ZONE 24x7; an IT company involved in data analytics and machine learning. He is also a member of the Gamini Corea Trust, a Trustee of the SLINTEC Endowment Trust Fund and remains the Founder/Owner of Avastha Financial Advisory Services.

Gunawardana is an Attorney-at-Law with a Master’s Degree in Commercial Law from the United Kingdom, and has over 35 years of diverse experience. She is currently the Capital City Law Senior Legal Consultant, CHEC Port City Colombo Joint Managing Partner, and International Distilleries Group Legal Consultant. 

She is also a member of the Company Law Advisory Commission of Sri Lanka. Gunawardana started her career at Julius & Creasy and proceeded to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Legal Division. She has held several senior public service positions including Department of Fiscal Policy Legal Advisor and Ministry of Finance Economic Affairs Senior Assistant Secretary (Legal), and General Treasury Legal Affairs Department Director General.

As Project Director, she led the Fiscal Reforms Project and the Fiscal Management Reform Program of the ADB/Ministry of Finance, and the Legal and Judicial Reforms Project of the World Bank/Ministry of Justice. 

She underwent extensive foreign training including programs at HIID/Harvard University

(USA), Amsterdam Institute of Finance, LKY School of Public Policy (Singapore), Commonwealth Secretariat (London), and at the World Bank (Washington D.C.). She has previously served as a Director of Renuka City Hotels PLC and as the Government Nominee Director of DFCC Bank PLC and Information and Technology Agency of Sri Lanka.