Manju Haththotuwa joins JAT Holdings Board

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Manju Haththotuwa

Multi-faceted personality and top professional Manju Haththotuwa has been appointed to the Board of JAT Holdings PLC as Independent Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 February 2025.

Haththotuwa has over 30 years of professional experience and a proven track record in successfully leading several public and private sector entities.

He has consistently built world class organisations, inspired high performance teams, and mobilised resources that deliver results. He has a reputation for conceptualising and executing innovative high impact initiatives in several countries and regions.

He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the USA.

In the development sector, Haththotuwa joined the World Bank as a practitioner and thought leader in technology-enabled innovation, infrastructure development, and private sector growth strategies. He has led a multibillion-dollar portfolio of private sector development projects in Asia, Africa, and Middle East regions. His recent responsibilities include heading the private sector, financial sector, and innovation teams in the GCC group of countries. Haththotuwa has been based at the World Bank HQ in Washington, DC for the past 17 years.

In the private sector, Haththotuwa has held leadership positions such as Chairperson to the Board of Directors/MD/CEO of eight publicly listed companies and has also made four PE/VC investments, in verticals spanning finance, infrastructure, property development, agri-business, healthcare, education, and ICT/deep tech. These companies include Bio Carbon Fuels (USA), Ceylon Oxygen, Kotmale Holdings, Central Securities, e-Channelling, Kelsey Developments, Next Ventures, V-Capital, Sithro Garments etc.

Haththotuwa is also a successful entrepreneur who has co-led one of Asia’s software success stories, which grew from start-up to global market leader for stock trading software and currently powers the London Stock Exchange among other leading Exchanges worldwide. As Executive Director/COO, Haththotuwa set up and led global operations and corporate facilities of Millennium IT (USA, UK, India, Singapore, and Sri Lanka), including the conceptual design, construction, and operation of its 16-acre tech campus.

In the public sector, for the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), Haththotuwa was the founding Managing Director of the National ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) and Country CIO, which pioneered the first national scale e-Transformation Program – e-Sri Lanka (e-SL) – a novel blueprint subsequently used globally by the World Bank. Haththotuwa also served as the Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka on Technology, Innovation, PPPs and Infrastructure.

Haththotuwa is a UK and Australia Chartered Professional Engineer, Associate of the City and Guilds, London, holds an MBA with a Distinction from the University of London and a BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School Leadership Program.