Asoka Pieris appointed MD of Cargills Foods Company

Top corporate leader Asoka Pieris has been appointed the Managing Director of Cargills Foods Company Ltd, the group’s retail arm operating the country’s largest supermarket chain. 

Asoka Pieris

He previously served as Director, Consultant, Advisor and Member of the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee.

In February last year he was appointed to the Board of parent Cargills (Ceylon) Plc, of which the Managing Director and Deputy CEO is M.I. Abdul Wahid.

Pieris was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Singer Group in Sri Lanka from July 2010 to October 2018. He also possesses overseas work experience in Hong Kong, serving as the Finance Vice President of Singer Asia Ltd. for two years and handling marketing for Singer Jamaica. He has been a Director of publicly-quoted companies in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Indonesia and a Director of non-quoted companies in India and Hong Kong.

He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK and a Certified Global Management Accountant. He has wide and varied experience in the fields of marketing, finance and manufacturing both in Sri Lanka and abroad.