Deepthie Wickramasuriya appointed to Amana Takaful Board

Deepthie Wickramasuriya

Amana Takaful Plc has announced the appointment of Eranjalie Deepthie Wickramasuriya (nee Wijesinghe) as an Independent Non-Executive Director to its Board with effect from 22 December.

Wickramasuriya currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director and the chairperson of the Audit Committee of Vidullanka PLC. She is also an independent consultant mainly in the fields of business process management, treasury management and business counselling, at Board/senior management levels.

She counts over 35 years of corporate experience that ranges across many industries and countries including the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, Indonesia and the Fiji Islands. 

She is renowned for successfully leading special projects (locally and internationally) relating to organisational strategy, operations, finance, risk and governance. She has also been very successful in mitigating the generation gaps that are currently faced by the management of many reputed companies.

She has been a board member/advisor to the boards of many companies including Expolanka Freight Ltd., AHL Business Solutions Ltd., (the Information Technology and Business Process Management arm of Good hope Asia Holdings Ltd., a part of Carson Cumberbatch PLC), Aviva Global Services a member of the Aviva group (formerly known as Norwich Union, UK), GFH Management Company (Galle Face Hotel), Lanka Equities Ltd., Flour Mills of Fiji PLC, AMW Management Company (management company of Associated Motorways Ltd. – AMW) and Family Health Services Authority – Oxfordshire, UK.

The Chitrasena Vajira Dance Foundation, the oldest and most prestigious school of traditional dance in Sri Lanka, is an organisation close to her heart of which she is a member of the Board.

She also held the post of Vice President of the Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps Seva Vanitha Unit from 2012-2015. Deepthie is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), UK, and holds an MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

With the latest appointment the Board of Amana Takaful Plc comprises O. Kassim (Chairman), M.H.S. Kassim (Managing Director), A.A.M. Haroon, M.R.M. Nayeem, S.R. Hussain, Z. Ghouse and E.D. Wickramasuriya.