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TMC was inaugurated in February 2002 at the Galle Face Hotel by the then British High Commissioner Linda Duffield.
TMC the brainchild of the Founder and now President Emeritus Fayaz Saleem, who as the outgoing President of the Chartered Management Institute UK Sri Lanka Branch proposed to the then Executive Committee the need to establish a management club that may constitute managers of all functional/professional disciplines and to provide them a platform to ‘meet, greet and interact with fellow professional managers so as to enhance and sharpen their interpersonal and networking skills’.
Visit of the CEO and Director General of the Chartered Management Institute UK (from left): The Management Club Founder President Fayaz Saleem, Chartered Management Institute UK CEO and Director General Mary Chapman, CMI UK (Sri Lanka Branch) President Anil Weeratunga and CMI UK (Sri Lanka Branch) Vice President Sega Nagendra
The Management Club now has an overall membership in excess of 400 and operates through four clubs – in Colombo at Galadari Hotel, Mount Lavinia at Berjaya Mt. Royal Beach Hotel, in Negombo at the Camelot Beach hotel and Kalutara at the Hibiscus Beach Hotel and Ramadia Hotel in Moratuwa. All such partner hotels provide numerous benefits to all TMC members upon presentation of a valid membership card. Membership in any of the clubs automatically entitles the member for benefits at all partner hotels.
Membership is by invitation and the criteria applied is that a prospective member must be in management for a minimum of three years with academic or professional qualifications ‘or’ five years in management in a recognised organisation with no academic or professional qualifications.
TMC Clubs in different locations organise a variety of programs relating to management development, evening presentations coupled with a ‘Meet and Greet’ opportunity for fellow members almost every month at the Galadari Hotel, motor rallies, annual get-togethers and numerous other events at partner hotels. Members have the unique benefit of a Bottle Bar at Galadari Hotel together with a fully equipped meeting room facility and lounge. A 20% discount may be availed at all partner hotels for food, beverage laundry etc.
The Management Club inaugurated their CSR arm titled ‘Enable the Disabled’ and have carried out a host of projects creating awareness of the disabled. The five entities, Colombo, Mount Lavinia, Negombo, Kalutara, and ETD (commonly known) are managed by elected committees whilst a Board of Management provides overall advice and guidance to the clubs.
At the inauguration of TMC at the Galle Face Hotel (from left): Galle Face Hotel former Vice President Lalith Rodrigo, Former British High Commissioner Linda Duffield, CMI UK (Sri Lanka Branch) Vice President Sega Nagendra, The Management Club Founder President Fayaz Saleem
