Banking veteran Chandana Dissanayake joins SDB Board

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Chandana Dissanayake

Sanasa Development Bank PLC has appointed Chandana Dissanayake to its Board as Independent Non-Executive Director.

Dissanayake counts over 40 years of experience in the Banking and Non-Banking Financial Sector, with extensive experience in the areas of Corporate, Commercial and Retail Lending, Credit Risk Management in UAE, Oman and Sri Lanka. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers UK and also a Life Member of the Association of Professional Bankers of Sri Lanka (APB).

Dissanayake has worked for 10 years with National Bank of Abu Dhabi as Vice President - Government Corporate Relations and Associate Director, Commercial Coverage, as well as with HSBC Bank Middle East as Credit Manager for five years. He has also worked at National Bank of Oman, Sampath Bank as well as HSBC Colombo.

He has also held the position of Head of Credit at Union Bank of Colombo, and he worked at Assetline Leasing Company Ltd., from 2017 to 2020 initially as a consultant and was subsequently appointed to the Board as Executive Director to help develop their non-automotive business.