Tamara Dharmakirti-Herath new Chairperson at Alliance Finance

• Senior lawyer Lasantha Hettiarachchi appointed to the Board as well 

Alliance Finance Company PLC has announced Tamara Dharmakirti-Herath as its new Chairperson.

The appointment follows the retirement of Ramani N. Ponnambalam with effect from 22 October having served the Board for nine years.  

Dharmakirti-Herath has over 39 years of experience in the financial services sector and has made significant contributions to the industry and was involved in the setting up of two Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI) in the country.

In her long professional career she has been in senior management positions in a few of the premier NBFI’s and as a consultant providing technical skill and knowledge to NBFI’s and banks engaged in Leasing and Factoring. 

She has vast knowledge and experience in the multiple aspects of the finance industry. She has facilitated knowledge and skill development to young leasing professionals in Sri Lanka (pro-bono) and advocates best practices and gender equality in the management of the NBFI sector.

Additionally, having represented the country in two team sports she went on to be involved in sports administration at national and international level. She has served as a director of an international sport federation and president of a regional and national sport federation and as a member of the National Sports Council and National Selection Committee for Olympics, Chairperson of the Women and Sports Committee NOC Sri Lanka, and in other positions of repute.

Alliance Finance also announced the appointment of Lasantha Hettiarachchi as an Independent Non-Executive Director, following the retirement of A.R. Samarasinghe having served the Board for nine years.

Hettiarachchi is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka who holds both Master of Law and Doctor of Civil Law degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

In over 30 years of practice as an Attorney at Law he counts wide experience in commercial and civil litigation in the original/appellate courts and arbitrations. In addition to experience in management and administration, he also has extensive experience in transactional legal services and consultancy in a wide range of matters ordinarily covered in a corporate and commercial civil law practice. 

He presently owns and manages a private civil law practice established in 2002.

With the latest changes, the Board of Directors of Alliance Finance Company PLC comprises of Chairperson G.S.T.D. Herath, Managing Director Romani K.E.P. de Silva, D.L.I. Hettaiarachichi, J.M. Gunasekera, W.P.K. Jayawardena, P. De Silva, R.E. Rambukwelle and L.J.H. de Silva.