Orient Capital appoints two new Directors to its Board
Ms. Indrani Goonesekera and James Mathews, joined the Board of
Directors of Orient Capital Limited as Non Executive Directors. Orient
Capital is a steady growing capital market services company and the new
appointments would strengthen the company's growth momentum.
Ms. Indrani Goonesekera is a Legal Consultant with experience in the
banking and commercial sectors. She formerly held the positions of
Deputy General Manager (Legal) and Head of Legal at the Hatton National
Bank PLC (HNB) and was a member of the Bank's Corporate Management for
over 15 years. She was also HNB's Board Secretary and its group of
companies. She is a qualified Attorney-at- Law.
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Ms.
Indrani Goonesekera |
James
Mathews |
James Mathews joins Orient with over 30 years experience in a variety
of sectors, including Information Technology, manufacturing and human
resources management. He had held the position of Chief Executive
Officer of Kotmale Dairy Products and worked for over ten years at the
Commonwealth Secretariat in London.
He is currently the Managing Director of Mahaweli Feed Mills (Pvt)
Limited. Mathews holds a Bachelors degree in Economics, a MBA with a
specialisation in Information Technology and a post-graduate diploma in
Personnel Management.
Orient Capital Limited is a 100% equity funded company with well
diverse capital market services to individual and corporate clients,
with a highly experienced board of directors and senior management. The
company's primary sources of income have been through dividends yielded
by member companies and other investments. Orient Capital is focused on
developing into an investment company par excellence with an
all-encompassing capital market services mandate.
The long term vision of the company had been to gain recognition as a
premier provider of capital market services, consolidating to be the
preferred partner for corporate entities and individuals. Orient Group
offers seamless and integrated services represented by the highest
levels of professionalism for their clients' financial and investment
requirements. Orient is currently pursuing a formula of strategic
investment, amalgamating companies offering a wide array of capital
market related services, under the Orient Capital group with its focus
on transforming into a strategic investment company, offering a plethora
of capital market services.
Orient Wealth Limited is licensed by the Securities & Exchange
Commission of Sri Lanka, Orient Finance PLC is a Finance company
registered under the Business Finance Act and First Alliance Money
Brokers Limited (FAMB), are member companies under the Orient Capital
umbrella.
The Board of Directors of the Company comprises of Dr. Dayanath
Jayasuriya P.C as Chairman, Rohan Senanayake, Managing Director, Prakash
A, Schaffter and Ramesh Schaffter as Non Executive Directors and Ms.
Indrani Goonesekera and James Mathews as Independent Non Executive
Directors.
Orient plans an initial public offering with the hope of developing a
multi-dimensional investment Company which will enable the company to
secure a financial stronghold for funding its strategic investments.
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