Sunshine Holdings PLC has announced the appointment of Amal Cabraal as the new Chairman of the company with effect from 26 June.

This will follow the retirement of incumbent Munir Shaikh on 25 June.

Cabraal is currently Vice Chairman, a post he has been holding since February 2020. He was appointed to the Board of Sunshine Holdings PLC in 2017.

Cabraal is presently the Chairman of Ceylon Beverage Holdings PLC, Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC, CIC Feeds Group and Silvermill Investment Holdings Ltd. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Unilever Sri Lanka and has over four decades of business experience in general management, marketing and sales in Sri Lanka and overseas. He is also a Non-Executive Director of John Keells Holdings, Hatton National Bank and an advisor to a number of leading companies. He is a committee member of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Management Committee of the Mercantile Services Provident Society. 

A Marketer by profession and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing-UK, he holds an MBA from the University of Colombo and is an executive education alumnus of INSEAD-France

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