Samantha Rajapaksa appointed AMW MD

Samantha Rajapaksa

Len Hunt, Chairman of AMW and President of Al-Futtaim Automotives Dubai announced the appointment of Samantha Rajapaksa as Managing Director of the AMW Group.

Rajapaksa has over 25 years experience in diverse business organizations both local and overseas, which include strategic planning, business development and implementing organizational change management.

Hunt said “We are delighted that Samantha has joined us and we are confident that he will be able to lead the AMW Group to new levels of performance which will include executing our aggressive expansion plans in Sri Lanka”. Rajapaksa is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing of UK. He also holds an MBA from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura.

Dubai-based Al-Futtaim group acquired Associated Motorways in mid-2008. AMW are the sole distributors for Nissan, Maruti, Suzuki, Eicher, Yamaha, Piaggio, Goodyear, British Petroleum and Castrol.