N. G. Wickremaratne joins HNB Board
The Board of Hatton National Bank has appointed N G Wickremaratne as
an Independent Non Executive Director with effect from July 1, 2009,
according to a press release issued by the Bank.
Wickremaratne (popularly known as "Tanky"), is the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of the Hayleys Group, one of Sri Lanka's most
respected, diversified and successful blue chip conglomerates today. He
is due to retire from that post on June 30, 2009. He joined the Hayleys
Group in 1971 as a Management Trainee and has had a long and
distinguished career which saw him appointed as a Group Executive
Director in 1983, to the Board in 1986, Deputy Chairman in 2004 and as
Chairman and CEO in January 2007. A great achievement in his career had
been the founding of Dipped Products Ltd ("DPL") a key company within
the Hayleys Group manufacturing rubber gloves, of which he had been the
CEO from its inception in 1976 and Managing Director from 1983 to 2006.
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