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Nations Trust Bank, whose agility and dynamism is a reflection of its people, recently announced the appointment of a number of new members to its top team. This will further strengthen and bring the necessary diversity to the bank’s leadership to facilitate the ambitious growth plans that it has set for itself.
Standing from left: Deputy Head of Credit Gayan Ranaweera, Deputy General Manager – Internal Audit Nanda Bandara, Deputy General Manager – Commercial Banking Hemantha Gunetilleke and Chief Operating Officer Thilak Piyadigama and seated Chief Marketing Officer Shaan Wickremesinghe
Among the new appointments, Thilak Piyadigama will assume responsibility as Chief Operating Officer. With over 26 years of experience in banking and technology, Thilak has spent a major part of his career in senior management roles in Singapore, UK, UAE and Sri Lanka with Standard Chartered Bank. His professional experience spans across technology, banking operations, operational risk, client servicing and strategy.
Hemantha Gunetilleke joins Nations Trust Bank as Deputy General Manager – Commercial Banking and brings with him extensive international experience in Corporate Banking and Trade Finance. Hemantha joins Nations Trust from HSBC where he held senior country, regional and global roles in Sri Lanka, Maldives and most recently in Hong Kong.
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Rachini appointed to NTB Board
Financial services professional Rachini Rajapaksa has been appointed to the Board of Nations Trust Bank as a Non-Executive Director.
Rachini Rajapaksa
Rajapaksa was the CFO of IBM World Trade Centre Corporation. Immediately prior to joining IBM she was employed at Ceybank Asset Management Company, the managers of Ceybank Unit Trust Funds. |
Nanda Bandara joins Nations Trust Bank as Deputy General Manager – Internal Audit and brings in extensive experience in External Auditing and Internal Auditing. He was heading the Internal Audit functions of DFCC Bank and Sampath Bank previously. He worked for HNB and KPMG in the early years of his career.
Taking on the task of Chief Marketing Officer for Nations Trust Bank is Shaan Wickremesinghe. She has extensive experience in multinational FMCG Marketing locally and regionally and will bring the best practices in marketing to the banking industry. Her previous experiences include Fonterra Brands, Unilever and MAS Holdings.
Joining Nations Trust Bank as the Deputy Head of Credit is Gayan Ranaweera, an experienced banker specialised in credit and risk management. He was involved in developing the Risk Rating Models, implementation of Basel 2 Capital Calculation framework and carries his experience from HNB and Sampath Bank.
“We are proud to announce these additions to the Nations management team. A strong focus on value creation for all our stakeholders is one of our key drivers of growth and we look forward to taking the bank to its next phase with the support and expertise of these individuals,” commented Nations Trust Bank Chief Executive Officer Renuka Fernando.
Nations Trust Bank PLC is ranked among the top 25 business establishments in Sri Lanka by Business Today magazine and its market positioning of being the benchmark of customer convenience, is ably supported by a host of financial products and services offered to a wide range of customers. The bank operates 93 branches across the country with an ATM network that covers 133 locations and is the issuer and sole acquirer for American Express Cards in Sri Lanka.
