DFCC announces Thimal as new CEO from 2022

DFCC Bank yesterday announced that Thimal Perera has been selected as the new CEO from 1 January 2022.

He is at present Director on the Board and the Deputy CEO, a post he has held since August 2017 after having joined DFCC in June same year.

“The proposed appointment will lead to an orderly transition in the leadership role and DFCC Bank will be able to continue to build on its strong foundation and be a leading commercial bank in Sri Lanka forging ahead in its journey of being the most customer centric and digitally enabled bank by 2025,” incumbent CEO Lakshman Silva said in a filing to the Colombo Stock Exchange. 

The appointment will be subject to receiving regulatory approval from the Central Bank with regard to the ‘fit and proper’ criteria specified in the Banking Act.

Silva was the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of DFCC Vardhana Bank PLC from January 2010 to September 2015 and was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer and to the Board of DFCC Bank PLC in October 2015. He was promoted as the Chief Executive Officer in August 2017. 

Perera has held several senior positions in the banking sector and has over two decades of experience in the financial services and banking sector, both locally and internationally having been with the HSBC Group, both in Sri Lanka and Overseas, the Commercial Bank of Qatar, Barclays Bank PLC, UAE and at Hatton National Bank.