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| BOC Chairman Kavinda de Zoysa |
Bank of Ceylon (BOC) Chairman Kavinda de Zoysa has been appointed to the Board of Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
De Zoysa has been serving as Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Bank of Ceylon since November 2024.
He also chairs Property Development Ltd., BOC UK Ltd. (SMF9), and BOC IT Solutions Ltd. Under his leadership, BOC operates through more than 2,300 service points, including over 650 branches, and maintains an international presence in the UK, India, Maldives, and Seychelles.
A career banker with over three decades of experience, including more than 25 years in management, de Zoysa previously held senior roles at Citibank N.A., where he served as Director and Country Business Head for Sri Lanka.
During his nearly two-decade tenure at Citi, he was part of the country management and governance committees, leading strategic planning, corporate finance, capital markets, M&A advisory, and digitalisation initiatives. He has also worked with National Development Bank, Nations Trust Bank, and Seylan Bank.
His expertise spans corporate and investment banking, digitisation, risk management, strategic planning, development finance, and capital markets. He has also chaired the MASANA Regional Engagement Group of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) and served as a senior membership assessor and vice chair of the CIMA Global Membership Panel since 2011.
De Zoysa is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK, the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) UK, the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka, and the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka.
He holds an MBA with a Merit Pass and Gold Medal from the University of Colombo and completed executive education in Leading with Data and Analytics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
