Divasa Finance appoints two directors

Rapidly expanding, Divasa Finance Limited recently announced the appointment of Prof. Arjuna De Silva and Vasula Premawardhana as non-executive directors of the company.

Prof. Arjuna De Silva (MBBS, MD, MSc [Oxon], FRCP [Lond], FCCP) is a professor in medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. He obtained the MRCP (UK) in 2000, the MSc from the University of Oxford in 2001, the FCCP in 2009 and FRCP (London) in 2010.

The Clinical Co-ordinator in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, he is also a trainer in Gastroenterology in Sri Lanka. He is also a winner of the Presidential research awards in 2003, 2006 and 2010, the E. M. Wijerama prize in 2010, the Rajasooriya award in 2003 and 2010 and the Vice Chancellors award in 2010. He was recently appointed the Director General of the Sports Medical Unit of the Ministry of Sports.

Vasula Premawardhana is an accomplished professional with over 15 years of comprehensive management experience comprising local and international hands-on financial sector experience gained across the spectrum as a Stock/Derivatives Broker, Financial Analyst, Fund Manager, and Financial Markets Regulator.

He is currently the Managing Director of First Derivatives Capital and a former Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka. He holds a MA in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo, and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.