Bertal joins EAP Holdings as Group Director-General Manager Finance & Planning

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Bertal Pinto-Jayawardena joins EAP Holdings Ltd. as Group Director-General Manager Finance and Planning. Pinto-Jayawardena is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants UK. He is also a Member of the Institute of Management, UK and a multiple award winner at accounting examinations.

He counts nearly 30 years of experience in senior management positions which include Head of Finance and Administration at Standard Chartered Bank, Head of Finance, MIS and Risk Management of People’s Bank and Director of People’s Leasing Company. His last tenure was at Janashakthi Insurance PLC as General Manager – Finance and Planning. His initial professional training was at KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton & Co. ending up as a Senior Manager. During his tenure as a Manager, he was seconded to Peat Marwick Mitchell in Zambia for a brief spell. He is a holder of a Diploma in Risk Management obtained through a scholarship awarded by the Swedish International Development Agency. He has also received extensive training and exposure in Management, Banking Insurance and Finance in the UK, USA, and Japan and at many other overseas programs. He has served as a resource person and a panellist at many professional fora organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, CIMA Sri Lanka, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Insurance Institute and others. He was a Council Member of CIMA Sri Lanka and has served on various committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He is also the Founder Trustee of Ekamuthu Oray Makkal Unity Mission Trust, a non-profit organisation fostering unity, integration, healing and reconciliation in Sri Lanka since May 2009, amongst teenaged youth. He is an old boy of St. Thomas College, Mt. Lavinia. He has been actively involved in projects relating to his Alma Mater where he was also the Founder Chairman of the STC Special Events Team, which amongst others led the efforts to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the College and 125th Anniversary of the OBA. The Board of EAP Holdings Ltd comprises of Chairman/Managing Director Mano Tittawella, Deputy Chairman Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Non-Executive Director Deepa Edirisinghe, Non-Executive Director Nalaka Edirisinghe, Non-Executive Director Asanka Edirisinghe, Non-Executive Independent Director Dr. Dayanath Jayasuriya, Non-Executive Independent Director Russel de Mel and Non-Executive Independent Director Preethi Jaywardena.