Heshan Peiris joins Ceylinco Holdings’ Board

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Ceylinco Holdings PLC has appointed Heshan Peiris to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Peiris is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, since 1988 and also possesses a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh, Scotland, since 2000. He has significant experience in Grants Management for USAID-based projects in Malawi, and agri-business assignments for the European Union and the World Bank. During his tenure in Malawi (1987-2018), he spent several years as a Consultant and Commercial Director at National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM).

Since the early 1980s he has worked at a Managerial level at both Ernst & Young and Tea Tang in Sri Lanka, a local subsidiary of CGE Alsthom in Lagos, Nigeria, Leisure industry, Agriculture and Educational sectors in Malawi, and Deloitte & Touche as a Business Consultant in Operations and Business Strategy assignments. He worked principally for the private sector during his career, though he also worked at a tobacco parastatal funded by both the Government of Malawi and Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), UK, and the Cinnamon industry in Matara on his return to Sri Lanka in May 2018.