Arjuna Herath appointed to Senkadagala Finance Board

Top professional Arjuna Herath has been appointed to the Board of Senkadagala Finance Company PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Herath retired from Ernst & Young (EY), Chartered Accountants recently as a Senior Partner and Consulting Leader for Sri Lanka and the Maldives. 

In his career preceding Ernst & Young, he was Marketing Development Manager at Ceylon Tobacco Company and Director Corporate Finance at Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka. 

Arjuna served as a Board Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board and as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka. He also served as a member of the Company Law Advisory Commission. 

He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Colombo Stock Exchange. Arjuna is a distinguished senior Chartered Accountant and is a past President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. 

He was actively involved in the international fora in the field of accounting. He is a Past President of the South Asian Federation of Accountants and was a Board Member of the Confederation of Asia Pacific Accountants and was also the chair of the Professional Accountancy Organisation Development Committee of the IFAC. 

He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colombo, an MBA from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom and a Master of Arts in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo.

With the latest appointment, the Board of Directors of Senkadagala Finance Company PLC comprise S.R. Pushpakumara (Chairman), L. Balasuriya (Managing Director/CEO), S.D. Bandaranayake (Executive Director/Additional CEO), L. Fernando, N.V. Kumar, R.A. Perera and A. Herath.