Senaka Alawattegama new Executive Director/CEO at Kelani Valley Plantations

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Senaka Alawattegama

Senaka Bandara Alawattegama has been appointed as the new Executive Director/CEO at Kelani Valley Plantations PLC.

He succeeds Anura Weerakoon who retired last month.

Alawattegama has over 40 years of experience in the plantation sector. He joined Sri Lanka State Plantations Corporation as an Assistant Superintendent, and after privatisation of the estates, has been with Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC. He has held the positions of Group Manager, Visiting Agent, Deputy General Manager, Senior Regional General Manager, General Manager-Plantations Director and Director/CEO of TPL.

He holds an MBA from the London Metropolitan University, UK and is a Fellow Member of the National Institute of Plantation Management.

He also serves as Deputy Chairman of the Colombo Tea Traders Association, Member of the Committee of Ceylon Tea Road Map 2030, Member of the Executive and Finance Committee of The Planters’ Association and Member of the GI Management Committee of Sri Lanka Tea Board. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon, former Board Member of Sri Lanka Tea Board and Rubber Research Institute and former Committee Member of Management of Estate Staffs’ Provident Society.

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