Mercantile Hockey Association holds 67th AGM

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MHA new President V. Balagobi

The 67th Annual General Meeting of the Mercantile Hockey Association (MHA) was held recently at the Red Wood Lounge at the BRC Club House.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Director V. Balagobi was unanimously elected as the President for the year 2023/2024. Chandana Weragama from Sampath Bank PLC was retained as the Secretary and Sameera Ushantha also from Sampath Bank PLC took over as the new Treasurer.

As an honour and mark of respect to the late Asif Bary (immediate past President) two minutes of silence was observed and a picture of him was unveiled by the senior officials of MHA.

List of office bearers for the period 2023/24 (all unanimously elected)

President: V. Balagobi/PricewaterhouseCoopers
Vice Presidents: J. Majid/Expoceylon Pharmaceuticals; Christopher Tissera/SRB Logistics Ceylon Ltd.; Ajith de Silva/Brown and Co. PLC; Kumar de Silva/SRB Logistics Ceylon Ltd.; and Sumith Jayasena/Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC
Secretary: Chandana Weragama/Sampath Bank PLC
Asst. Secretary: Mohamed Hanas/Singer Sri Lanka PLC
Treasurer: Sameera Ushantha /Sampath Bank PLC
Asst. Treasurer: Deepika Kariyawasam/Hayleys Group
Executive Committee: J. Irshad/Seylan Bank PLC; Chaminda Suduarachchi/HNB; Sheron Fabian/John Keells Group; Gihan Peiris/Allianz Insurance Lanka Ltd., Laknath Guruge/Singer Sri Lanka PLC; Vishwa Prabath/Browns and Co. PLC; Sachith Dilshan/Airport and Aviation Services and Sahid Kuthubdeen/MAS Holdings

- Pix by Upul Abayasekara