Mohan and Dinesh appointed to Swisstek Board

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Mohan Ratnayake

Dinesh Mendis

Swisstek (Ceylon) PLC has announced the appointment of Mohan Ratnayake and Dinesh Mendis to its Board as Independent Non-Executive Directors.

Ratnayake is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK and has read for an MBA. He was the Chairman of the Committee which issued Sri Lanka’s first internationally listed USD Bond by a corporate entity for Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLT), which traded on the Singapore Stock Exchange, for the expansion of SLT and Mobitel. This was when the sovereign had not been rated by International Rating Agencies.

Ratnayake currently serves as the Managing Director of Colonial Motors CeyIon Ltd., and as the Chairman of Lanka Reality Investment PLC. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of ACL Plastics PLC.

Ratnayake serves on several Boards and Chairs, Audit Committees and other Statutory Committees. He has served on the Board of a State-owned entity in the Export Sector and has expertise in the fields of Tea Exports, Tea Plantations, Telecommunications and the Motor Industry. He held the position of Deputy Chairman of a listed Financial Institute falling under the purview of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Mendis has a corporate career spanning over 30 years and is an innovative business leader with exceptional strategic, operational. marketing and people development experience and was a Director of Aitken Spence Group Ltd., from 2001 to 2022.

He has Ied as the Managing Director, companies in a variety of industries which include Fintech and Financial Services, Freight Forwarding, Logistics, Engineering and held Directorships in companies in ICT, Printing and Packaging, and Real Estate Industries in Sri Lanka. He also has experience working in the Retail industry in the United States.

Mendis holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (BSc), (Magna Cum Laude) from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA, specialising in Marketing and Economics where he won the outstanding Undergraduate Student award in Marketing and Economics in his final year 1992. He also holds a Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA) specialising in Marketing in 1993 from The University of Texas, USA.

Mendis has served on the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka and currently serves on the Board of The National Council for Child and Youth Welfare and is involved in mentoring and advising local startup companies and small enterprises.