BOC new Chairman assumes office
Bank of Ceylon, new Chairman Razik Zarook assumed office yesterday.
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Zarook is also a diplomat and former Chairman of a number of Public
Corporations and is also a senior Attorney at Law and President's
Counsel who was enrolled to the Bar in 1969. His management skills came
to the limelight when he was appointed Chairman of the Co-operative
Wholesale Establishment (CWE) by the then Trade and Shipping Minister
late Lalith Athulathmudali. He was given the responsibility of turning
around the CWE to become an efficient and viable much sought after
consumer organization responsible for the wide distribution of essential
commodities without letting any artificial scarcities to be created even
during turbulent times.
Under his tenure, the CWE was a model profitable and viable
organization having diversified and acquired many assets developing real
estates and establishing a number of public and quoted companies as
Sathosa Motors Limited, Sathosa Printers Limited and Lanka Milk Foods
Limited of which he was founder Chairman.
Zarook also held office as Chairman of the Agricultural Development
Authority and National Aquatic Research and Development Authority
(NARA).
He did serve as the Ambassador to the then Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and thereafter as the first Ambassador to Hungary.
Subsequently he was appointed as High Commissioner to Singapore.
Apart from his professional education at the Sri Lanka Law College,
Zarook is also an Alumni of the Indian Institute of Management
Ahamedabad.
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