On Amana Takaful Insurance Board

Aslam Omar, an entrep-reneur and industrialist from the apparel, food and plastic manufacturing sectors and Javed Mansoor, a leading legal personality joined the board of Amana Takaful Insurance PLC recently.

Omar is the Chairman of Kuruwita Textile Mills Ltd., Managing Director of Phoenix Industries Ltd. and Phoenix Ventures Ltd. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Brandix Lanka Limited and is the Director-in-Charge of the Brandix Accessories Division.

Omar also has experience and competence in setting up international operations, an example of which is his efforts to expand the sewing thread manufacturing facility and also setting up an overseas sewing thread manufacturing plant in Bangladesh.

Javed Mansoor is a renowned practitioner of law in Sri Lanka and is currently engaged in the private practice of commercial, finance, tax and employment law. Mansoor has experience in the field of financial law and has throughout the years given legal opinions on Islamic finance, leasing, debt factoring, import loans and taxation. Omar and Mansoor will be part of Amana Takaful Insurance's Board of Directors along with Tyeab Akbarally (Chairman), Ehsan Zaheed (CEO), Osman Kassim, Faizal Salieh, M.H.M. Rafiq, Faisz Musthapha, Dr.A.A.M. Haroon and Dato' Mohd Fadzli Yusof.