Chairman Ruwan takes up CEO role at eChannelling

•  Capital Trust’s Tushan joins Board

Ruwan Silva has been given the role of CEO in addition to being Chairman of eChanneling Plc. The company said Silva has been appointed as CEO with effect from 31 January 2013 and will function as Chairman and CEO.

Silva was first appointed as Chairman of eChanneling on 8 November last year and prior to that he was Deputy Chairman after having been appointed to the Board in May 2010. eChannelling’s controlling shareholder is British American Technologies, holding a 28% stake. Silva is the Chairman of BAT.

eChanneling also said Tushan Wickramasinghe has been appointed to the Board with effect from 31 January following the resignation of Executive Director A.R. Karunaratna, who joined the Board in January 2012. He was the CEO of the company.

Wickramasinghe represents Capital Trust Holdings, which has over 10% stake. J.B. Cocoshell owns a 16% stake in eChannelling.

Prior to setting up BAT, Silva was the Chief Financial Officer at Sri Lanka Telecom PLC and Chief Financial Officer for Ericsson Algeria and Sri Lanka. He has more than 18 years experience, cutting across varied industries, such as healthcare, electronics, telecommunications, transportation, IT and banking. He has also worked at Ansell, John Keells Holdings and HSBC. Silva holds a Masters in Business Administration (University of Colombo), a LLB degree with honours (University of London, UK), is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK (FCMA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).