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The Finance Ministry has appointed Sunimal Weerasooriya to the Board of Bank of Ceylon as an Independent, Non-Executive Director.
The appointment was made based on the recommendations of a five-member special committee and approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Weerasooriya is a technology professional with over 30 years’ experience across digital payments, logistics, automated clearing house/payment infrastructure, information security, BPO, cash management, investment banking, and production and training.
He specialises in technology strategy, digital transformation, technology management, technology transfer, business strategy and innovation.
He was the former Director General/CEO of LankaPay Ltd. and was instrumental in setting up LankaPay, the digital payments backbone infrastructure in Sri Lanka under CBSL guidance.
More recently Weerasooriya served as the Senior Vice President - Technology and Innovation at Transnational Group, Singapore and also functioned as the Country Director of Transnational Group of Companies in Sri Lanka as a seconded role.
He has served as Board Director of many companies in diverse sectors such as Transnational Technology Solutions Lanka Ltd., Transnational Lanka Ltd., Pronto Lanka Ltd., Mountain Hawk Express Ltd., MMBL Money Transfer Lt., MMBL CyberSkills Ltd., Hanwella Rubber Products Ltd., and Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team.
Weerasooriya currently serves as Independent Non-Executive Director of Synapsys Ltd. He is also an Accredited International Mediator of Singapore International Mediation Institute, Sage Mediation, Singapore and IADRC, Sri Lanka.
He graduated with a First-Class Honours Degree in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya in 1992 and later obtained several post-graduate qualifications in multiple disciplines such as an MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management, an MBA in Management of Technology form Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and an MSc in Project Management from Curtin University of Technology Australia.
He is also a Fellow Member of the Chartered Management Institute of UK.
