Dinesh joins Access Plc Board

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Top Professional Dinesh Weerakkody has been appointed to the Board of Access Engineering Plc according to a disclosure made by the company to the CSC on Friday as a Non Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2015. Weerakkody is the former Chairman of Commercial Bank of Ceylon Plc. He is a former Chairman of the Employees Trust Fund Board and a Director of DFCC Bank. He serves and had served in a number of Government and private sector boards.

He is also a Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka Chapter a Council member of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon and the Institute of Directors of Sri Lanka. Weerakkody was also Advisor to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2004 and has served in many Cabinet Sub Committees and national level committees on economic affairs, international affairs and labour management. Weerakkody is a Graduate in Business Administration, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, Fellow Member of the Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka, Professional Member of the Singapore Human Resource Institute and has obtained an MBA from the University of Leicester, England. He has received extensive leadership, HR, and management training in the UK, USA, France, Japan, Singapore and India. Dinesh is currently a Director of many private sector Boards including GlaxoSmithKline Sri Lanka, Ceylon Tobacco Plc, Hemas Holdings Plc, Chairman of HR Cornucopia Lanka Ltd, and a Director/Advisor of Cornucopia Bangalore, India. Access Engineering Plc was recently ranked 20th in the prestigious Business Today Top Five rankings for 12/13.