Manjula de Silva appointed chairman, CIMA Sri Lanka

Manjula de Silva (CMA CGMA) was installed as chairman of CIMA in 2016 at the induction ceremony of the CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, held in Colombo on January 19.

Commenting on his appointment as President, Manjula said, "I am very excited about my new role as president of CIMA Sri Lanka Council. CIMA has played an important role in shaping my career role. It gives me a great opportunity to pay CIMA for what he did for me. 

CIMA I become the top brand in the education of corporate strategy in Sri Lanka and I'll do my best to make an important step in that direction this year.

Manjula has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Colombo and an MBA from London Business School, UK. He studied management at INSEAD Business School, France and the Harvard Business School, USA .. 

Having HNB Assurance plc joined as CEO in July 2004, Manjula served as general manager from March 2006 to March 2015 . In April 2015, he took a new position as president of the State Trust Property Insurance Fund (NITF). He is a member of the Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and served as the chairman of its Executive Committee in the safe until recently.

Vice President for the year will be Dr. Arul Sivagananathan (General Manager - Hayleys Industrial Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. and Hayleys BPO), while the vice president will Mahesha Ms. Amarasuriya (Senior Manager - Corporate Banking, Banking SELECT privilege NDB Bank PLC).

CIMA Sri Lanka Board see five new members to serve for a period of three years. Three members were appointed find Samantha Rajapaksa (Group CEO - Associated Motorways (Pvt) Ltd), Dinesh Dharmadasa (Executive Director - Ceylon Tobacco Company Plc) and Hasitha Premaratne (Chief Financial Officer - Brandix Lanka Ltd.) while Nishantha Weerakoon ( Group Finance Director - CIC Holdings PLC) was re-elected and Shraepathy Attanayake (Director - Logistics Ltd. Trico / Omak Technologies Ltd) was elected to the Executive Council this year.