Aswin assumes duties as NSB Chairman

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Aswin De Silva, a senior finance professional assumed, duties as the Chairman of the National Savings Bank (NSB) on Wednesday. The duty assuming ceremony took place at the NSB Head Office, Kollupitiya in the presence of Minister of Resettlement, Reconstruction and Hindu Religious Affairs D.M. Swaminathan and newly-appointed Directors, D.L.P.R. Abeyaratne, Post Master General, K.M.M. Siriwardane, Director General, Department of Fiscal Policy, Bradley Emerson, Wasantha Batagoda and Suranga Naullage. NSB General Manager and CEO Dhammika Perera and the senior management of NSB and special invitees were also present. De Silva’s diverse banking experience expanding well over a decade includes several senior managerial positions at American Express. These include areas of finance, credit and corporate banking. He also worked as the Country Manager at Amex Travel related services, in Sri Lanka and Maldives. De Silva is the recipient of the Prestigious Chairman’s Award for Quality at Amex. He has also served at Associated Motorways Co. as the Group Finance Director and as GM/CEO at Ceylinco Savings Bank. Immediately preceding this appointment as the Chairman, NSB, he has served in senior managerial capacity in the corporate sector in Sydney, Australia. De Silva is a Fellow Member of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL), a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and FCPA (Australia). Pic by Lasantha Kumara