Rajitha Basnayake joins Cargills Bank Board

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Rajitha Basnayake

Cargills Bank has appointed Rajitha Basnayake to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Basnayake is a Chartered IT Professional and an Independent Management Consultant with over thirty five years of extensive experience in ICT and Business Management, providing leadership to mission critical ICT and Business Process Transformation projects enabling business strategies for a wide variety of industry sectors predominantly encompassing financial services, digital entertainment, digital marketing and media, FMCG and consumer durables, retailing and distribution and food and beverage manufacturing and distribution, hospitality and Information Technology solution delivery in private and public sector projects.

He currently serves as a Senior Management Consultant at Latex Green Ltd., a leading exporter in Natural Latex Foam industry and its related party companies; and had previously served on the Board of Asia Asset Finance PLC as Senior Independent/Independent Non-Executive Director and a member/Chairman of several Board-appointed committees. He has also served as Chairman of Evoke International Ltd. and as Director of Investor Access Asia Ltd.

Basnayake possesses extensive experience in Business Consultancy services as Director Advisory Services of Ernst and Young Sri Lanka, providing Business Advisory and ICT Advisory solutions for critical private and public sector projects in Sri Lanka and overseas.

He has held senior management positions in ICT at Asia Capital Group as Chief Information Officer of the conglomerate, The Lion Brewery Ceylon Ltd. as Head of Information Technology and at Richard Pieris Distributors Ltd. as Manager Information Systems.

Basnayake holds the following academic and professional qualifications: Chartered Member (CITP) of British Computer Society UK; Professional member (MBCS) of British Computer Society UK; Master’s degree in IT from Keele University UK; Executive Diploma in Business Administration from University of Colombo; and fully qualified professional in Australian Computer Society.