Ghouse appointed Chairman of Amana Takaful

Zulficar Ghouse

Amana Takaful PLC has announced the appointment of Independent Non-Executive Director M. Zulficar Ghouse as the Chairman of the Company with effect from 1 July 2021.

The move follows the retirement of Osman Kassim, the visionary and one of the main promoters of Amãna Group of Companies. Ghouse joined the Board on 3 June 2021. 

With the latest appointment, the Board of Directors of Amana Takaful comprises of Chairman M.Z.M. Ghouse, Managing Director M.H.S. Kassim, S.R. Hussain and E.D. Wickramasuriya.

He is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Accountants – Sri Lanka and trained at KPMG in addition to also being a Fellow Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka. 

Since 2009, he functioned as the Executive Director of Expack Corrugated Carton, a leading Corrugated Carton Manufacturer. Previously, he was employed as Director/CEO of Asiabike Industrial, a BOI-approved company, which is the pioneer in the manufacturing of bicycles in Sri Lanka

Ghouse has extensive experience in private sector organisations, both locally and overseas.

His previous appointments were as Director/CEO of Colombo Land and Development Co., and prior to that, he was Managing Director of iOM – Lanka and Country Manager of iOM – Philippines,which was subsidiary of Royal Clicks Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. He was also employed as Group Financial Controller of the Expolanka Group. He was also an Independent Director at Vidullanka from 2007 to January 2019.