Noel Wickremasinghe new President of ISMM

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The Council of Management of the Institute of Supply and Materials Management at its AGM held at the OPA Auditorium recently unanimously elected Noel Wickremasinghe as the President for the term 2015/2016. He took his oaths before the outgoing President Anil Ponweera at the AGM. Wickremasinghe is a Diploma

te and a Fellow Member of ISMM. He has been a Vice President of ISMM for over eight years and has served in many committees including the Chairman of the Finance and Budgetary Committee. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, UK and further serves in the Executive Council of the Organization for Professional Associations (OPA). He has represented ISMM at a number of international conferences and summits Wickremasinghe holds an MBA from the University of Moratuwa in Project Management and is an old boy of Nalanda College, Colombo. He started his career as a banker and then switched on to Procurement and Logistics after obtaining the relevant credentials. He has followed a Logistics Management Course at the National University of Singapore in conjunction with Penn-State University. He has been an influential figure responsible for organising and elevating the Procurement and Logistical Division of the Commercial Bank to its current levels, being the Assistant General Manager (Properties and Services) at the bank wherein he also served in the capacity of Senior Manager Supplies, Chief Manager Logistics and Head of Logistics during his tenure of 38 years. During the course of his service at the bank he was responsible for opening of the highest number of branches island-wide and contributed immensely to increase the number of branches to 235 at the time of his retirement from the bank. Having retired recently he took up an appointment with the Richard Pieris Group of Companies, which is one of the largest retail conglomerates in the country, as the General Manager – New Projects Development of Arpimalls Development Ltd. During the short span of one year he has contributed immensely towards the island wide expansion of the Arpico retail chain leading the project team to open a number of outlets islandwide. Wickramasinghe possesses an unwavering record of over three decades as a logistics professional as illustrated by his vast knowledge in the areas of procurement and material management in the banking and retail sector that further embellished his reputation as a prime figure in the field of logistics and supply chain management.