Asanga appointed to DIMO Board

Asanga Ranasinghe has been appointed to the Board of Diesel and Motor Engineering Plc as a Non Executive Director with effect from 27 July.

​Ranasinghe is currently the Group Marketing Director and Sector Managing Director of Consumer and Retail of Laugfs Holdings. Previously he was a CEO at Brandix Lanka Ltd., based out of Sri Lanka (since January 2016). Before joining Brandix, he was attached to Unilever since 1993. His last assignment at Unilever was an International Assignment (since October 2013) as the Vice President of Unilever Pakistan heading marketing based out of Karachi. Previously he was the Marketing Director of Unilever Sri Lanka. He was also one of the four statutory directors of Unilever Sri Lanka.

Ranasinghe is a Chemistry Special Hons. graduate from the University of Colombo. He holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura and a Professional Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. 

With the latest appointment, DIMO Board of Directors comprises of Ranjith Pandithage (Chairman and Managing Director), A.G. Pandithage (CEO), A.N. Algama, S.C. Algama, B.C.S.A.P, Goonarathne, A.M. Pandithage, R.C. Weerawardene, H. Cabral, R. Seevaratnam, A.D.B. Talwatte, M.V. Bandara, S.R.W.M.C. Ranawana and A.N. Ranasinghe.