Ceylon Hotels Corp. gets new Director

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Ceylon Hotels Corporation Plc has appointed Guanapala Tissakuttiarachcchi as a Director representing the Employers Trust Fund Board from 16 February.

He replaced K.M.A. Godawatte. Tissakuttiarachchi is a Director of the Employers Trust Fund Board, on which he has served since 2005.

EPF owns 11.4% stake in CHOT whilst controlling shareholder (70% stake) is Ceylon Hotels Holdings of Sanjeev Gardiner/Galle Face Hotels Group.

Tissakuttiarachchi was the State Minister of Environment and Parliamentry affairs from 1989 to 1994 and a Member of Parliament from 1988 to 1994.

He holds a Mass Communication Degree from the University of Kelaniya and has worked as an Executive Member at District Development Council, Hambantota from 1981 to 1988.

He was the Chairman of the State Printing Corporation from 1999 to 2001 and a Consultant at the Consumer Affairs Authority in 2005.

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