The Autodrome appoints new Chairman and Deputy Chairman

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The Autodrome PLC has appointed Prof. John A. Aloysius as Chairman of its Board and Jitendra T. Daulagala as Deputy Chairman.

Prof. Aloysius has served as a Non-Executive director of the board since 1990, and is a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee. He is the founding director of the Centre for AI and Business Decision Making, and professor and Oren Harris Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the Walton College of Business. His research has won several awards in premier operations and supply chain management and other business discipline journals and conferences. His research has been sponsored by Fortune 500 companies, industry associations, and tech startups.

He holds a PhD. from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Statistics, with First Class honours from the University of Colombo.

Daulagala joined the Board in 2024. He is chair of the Audit Committee, and is a member of Remuneration Committee, Related Party Transactions Committee, and Nominations and Governance Committee.

He currently serves as the Managing Director and Group Financial Director of iOM Lanka Ltd., (formerly EDS). He began his career as an Accounts Trainee at Warner Lambert Lanka Ltd., before moving on to roles such as Accountant at the Industrial Brush division of Eastern Merchants PLC and Credit Officer at Commercial Leasing PLC.

He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA, UK) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, and holds a Masters in Management Studies from the University of Essex (UK). He was an active member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS), serving as its Treasurer from 2012 to 2013.