Mr. Ajit Mahendra De Silva Jayaratne
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Mr. Ajit Jayaratne was appointed as the Chairman of the Company with effect from 27th October 2021, following the demise of Mr. S P Tao, the Founder and Chairman of Overseas Realty (Ceylon) PLC. (1991-2021)
Prior to being appointed as Chairman of the Company, Mr. Ajit Jayaratne was an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company since 2005. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee.
Mr. Jayaratne graduated from the University of Southampton, U.K. with a BSc degree in Economics. Thereafter he qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of U.K. Returning to Sri Lanka, he became a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He served at Forbes & Walker Limited for most of his working life, culminating in being appointed as the Chairman of the Company, a position he held for several years. During his period of service at Forbes & Walker, he was appointed to the Boards of several public and private companies. He also served as the Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange, Finance Commission and Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Upon retiring from the private sector, he was appointed as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Singapore. Upon completing his term in Singapore and returning to Sri Lanka, he continues to serve on the Boards of several public companies.
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Dr. (Mrs.) Mildred Tao Ong
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Mrs. Mildred Ong was appointed to the Board as a non-executive Director in 1991. She received her MBBS from University College London in 1972 and MRCP (UK) in Pediatrics in 1975. She however gave up medical practice to join the Shing Kwan Group in 1977 where she has been actively involved in all aspects of the Group’s property portfolio encompassing the residential, commercial and retail sectors through its controlling interest in Singapore Land Limited (until 1990), P T Jakarta Land (until 2005) and ORCPLC. Mrs. Ong participated in the Advanced Management Program in Harvard Business School in 1983.
Mrs. Ong currently oversees the Shing Kwan Group’s real estate investments in Singapore and abroad.
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Mr. Melvin Yap Boh Pin
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Mr. Yap Boh Pin was appointed as a non-executive Director of the Company on April 1991 and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Board until 18th January 2010. Mr. Yap serves as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee from November 1996.
Mr. Yap qualified as a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1966. He is a fellow member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Singapore, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
He is currently the Managing Director of B.P.Y. Private Limited, a firm of management consultants which provides financial planning, financial accounting, reviewing internal control systems as well as corporate secretarial services in Singapore.
Between July 1975 and January 1999, Mr. Yap was a senior partner at Yap Boh Pin & Co. which provided advice on auditing, taxation, liquidation and corporate restructuring matters. He is an independent Director of TeleChoice International Limited, a public listed company, Asia Mobile Holdings Pte Ltd and STT Communications ( Beijing) Co Ltd (both are private subsidiaries of Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd), which is part of the Singapore Technology Group. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Nominating Committee for TeleChoice International Limited. He is also an independent Director of public listed company, Lereno Bio-Chem Ltd, serving as Chairman of its Audit Committee and member of its Nominating Committee.
He has also held directorships in various public companies between 1975 and 2000, including Singapore Land Limited, L&M Investments Limited and Pan Pacific Company Limited and a member of their executive committees and/or audit committees, assisting in the evaluation and recommendation of changes to their system of internal controls and corporate governance.
Beyond the corporate sector, Mr. Yap is actively involved in various non-profit, educational and social welfare organizations. He is an Honorary Council Member of the Singapore HokkienHuay Kuan and a member of the Audit Committee of the Chinese Development Assistance Council. He is also a Director of Anglo-Chinese School (International) and chairman of its finance Sub Committee.
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Mr. Leslie Ralph de Lanerolle
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Mr. Ralph de Lanerolle joined the Board of Directors of ORC PLC on 3rd June 2010. Mr. de Lanerolle has over 50 years of work experience in both in the public and private sectors, where he has held senior management positions.
A Chartered Engineer, Mr. de Lanerolle holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (First Class Honours) from the University of Ceylon (1965) and a Master’s degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1968). He is a member of the Association of Professional Bankers of Sri Lanka, a Fellow of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Washington and a Honarary Life Member of the Institute of Engineering Sri Lanka.
Mr. De Lanerolle has worked primarily in the field of Project Finance and Management, undertaking assignments in diverse sectors of the economy, especially in the financial services, real estate and property, tourism, hotel and transportation sectors. In an individual capacity, he has served as Consultant to several private companies, providing project related advisory services from pre-investment to implementation.
Mr. de Lanerolle is currently, a Director of ORCPLC and its group companies Mireka Capital Land (Pvt) Ltd and Mireka Homes (Pvt) Ltd. He has also served, and continues to serve, on the Board of Directors of several private and public listed companies.
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Mr. En Ping Ong
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Mr. En Ping Ong was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company on 18th January 2010. Mr. Ong graduated from Harvard University with a BA (Hons) in Applied Mathematics and later attended the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University for his MBA. He has a background in Investment Banking and is focused on growing the real estate business of Shing Kwan Group.
He has a background in Investment Banking and is currently focused on growing the real estate business of the Shing Kwan Group.
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Mr. Tissa Kumara Bandaranayake
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Mr.Tissa Bandaranayake was appointed to the Board of directors of ORC PLC as a non-executive independent director on 19th May 2011 and he is also a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees. A Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka Mr.Tissa Bandaranayake also holds a B.Sc. degree from the University of Ceylon.
Mr. Bandaranayake retired from Ernst & Young as senior Partner in 2009 after 27 years of Service. He is a Past Chairman of the Audit Faculty and the current Chairman of the Quality Assurance Board established by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka comprising senior professional representatives from both the private sector and State Regulatory bodies.
Mr. Bandaranayake presently serves as an independent Director of Nawaloka Hospitals PLC, Samson International PLC, Laugfs Gas PLC, Renuka Foods PLC, Renuka Holdings PLC, Micro Holdings Ltd, Harischandra Mills PLC and Brown & Company PLC. He also serves as a Consultant to the Board of Noritake Lanka Porcelain (Pvt.) Ltd.
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Dr. Ranee Jayamaha
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B.A. (Hons) (University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), MSc (University of Stirling, U.K.), PhD (University of Bradford, U.K.), DUniv (University of Stirling, U.K.)
Dr. Ranee Jayamaha was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 15th March 2013,
Dr. Ranee Jayamaha is currently a Council member of the University of Colombo and the Lead Consultant for South Asia Region for the World Bank Group. She was the Chairperson of Hatton National Bank Plc., HNB Assurance PLC and Sithma Development (Pvt) Ltd. Dr. Jayamaha had been the Deputy Governor in charge of Financial System Stability of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka from 2004 up to her retirement at end of May 2009. She has over 40 years of extensive experience in the field of economics, banking, finance, regulation and administration, having held a number of positions in the Central Bank and outside.
On release from the Central Bank, she has served as Secretary – Presidential Commission on Finance & Banking, Advisor- Financial Sector Reform Committee, Ministry of Finance and Special Advisor (Economic) – Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK.
She has been a member of the Security & Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, the Insurance Board of Sri Lanka, the chairperson of Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka and the National Payments Council. Dr. Jayamaha has been a Member of the Working Group on General Payment System Development of the Bank for International Settlements, Member of the Global Payments Forum, Member of the Advisory Panel of the G-8 Remittance Working Group and Member of the Expert Panel of the Safeguard Assessment Policy Review 2010 of the IMF. She had been providing advisory services to a number of International financial Institutions and Central Banks in the Region.
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Mr. Ben Nien Tao
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Mr. Ben Nien Tao, the son of Mr. S P Tao, was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Overseas Realty (Ceylon) PLC with effect from 27th October 2021. Mr. Ben Tao is a director of the Shing Kwan Group of Companies and holds an indirect shareholding of 1,063,519,897 shares in the Company.
Mr. Ben Tao served as the Alternate Director to Mr. Shing Pee Tao and upon his demise he ceased to be an Alternate Director with effect from 24th August 2021.
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Mr. Brian Tao
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Mr. Brian Tao graduated from Harvard University in 2022 with a BA (Hons) in Economics. He has experience in private equity real estate investment, and now works on primary market equity investment at Loyal Valley Capital, a Shanghai based asset management firm. He has been a director at Shing Kwan Investment (Singapore) Pte Ltd since 2018, and at Peeli Ltd since 2023.
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Dr. Arittha Wikramanayake
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Dr. Arittha Wikramanayake Attorney-at-Law, LL.M(Brussels), LL.M(Georgia), M.A.L.D (Fletcher) is the Precedent Partner of Heritage Partners. He is a veteran Corporate and M&A lawyer and heads the Firm's corporate and acquisitions practice.
During his tenure as the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), he played a pivotal role in the development and formulation of fundamental laws, regulations, and policies - including the formulation of the Takeovers and Mergers Code. He thereafter served as the Precedent Partner of Nithya Partners (Attorneys-at-Law) for nearly 25 years, where he was the driving force in consolidating its position as one of the dominant corporate law firms in Sri Lanka.
As one of the leading capital market experts in the country, Dr. Wikramanayake has served in various key regulatory and policy formulating bodies including the Sri Lanka Accounting and Monitoring Standards Board, the Public Enterprises Reform Commission and Committees for the formulation of Codes of Corporate Governance. He also served as the Chairman of the Company Law Advisory Commission, a Member of the Advisory Commission on Intellectual Property Law and as a Member of the National Trade Negotiation Committee appointed by the Cabinet of Sri Lanka to negotiate Free Trade Agreements with Singapore, India, China and Thailand. He is presently a member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka. In addition, he has been consistently ranked as a leading individual in the fields of Corporate and M&A by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Dr. Wikramanayake received his professional education at the Sri Lanka Law College and was admitted to the Bar in 1981. He thereafter served as a State Counsel with the Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka till he assumed his position as the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission. During this period, he received LL.M degrees from the Vrije Universiteit (Brussels, Belgium), the University of Georgia (Athens, USA) as well as a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (USA). Furthermore, in 2013 he was awarded a Doctorate from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Mr. Carl Noel Shamil Mendis
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Mr Shamil Mendis is the Chairman/Managing Director of Spear Global Holdings (Pvt) Ltd which is engaged in the export of coir substrates, value added coir/coconut fiber products, food ingredients and spices. These products are exported to over 33 countries worldwide.
Prior to which, Mr. Mendis was the Deputy Chairman and Group Director of the Delmege Forsyth Group from 1982 – 2011 and was responsible for the growth of diverse businesses ranging from a variety of businesses in Imports, Exports, Shipping, Airlines, Logistics and Insurance. Mr. Mendis was a Past President of the Sri Lanka Singapore Business Council from 2006 – 2017 and was actively involved in the promotion and facilitation of International trade and investment. He was also a Past President of the Sri Lanka China Business Council and a Past Vice President of the Sri Lanka Japan Business Council and currently serves on the committee. He is also a Vice President of both the Sri Lanka Korea Business Council and the Sri Lanka Italy Business Council which are affiliated to the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He has also served as a Council Member of the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka and a member of the Board of the Export Development Board of Sri Lanka. Mr. Mendis is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK.
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Mr. Pravir Samarasinghe
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Mr Pravir Samarasinghe was appointed to the Board of Directors of the company with effect from 31st March 2014.
He is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Overseas Realty (Ceylon) PLC since his appointment on 10th March 2011 and prior to which he held the post of Group Director / COO of a diversified conglomerate.
He has 30 years of professional and commercial experience and has served on the Board of Directors of several public listed and unlisted Companies.
He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
He is the Chairman of the EFC Affiliated Group of Companies and Condominium Developers Association of Sri Lanka. He is also a Committee member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and Employers Federation of Ceylon. He was former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors, Industrial Association of Sri Lanka and past President CIMA Sri Lanka Division and former Council member CIMA Global.
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Mr. Pathiranage Yohan Srineth Perera
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Mr. Yohan Perera is a Chartered Accountant by profession and retired from the position of Managing Partner of KPMG Sri Lanka and Maldives on 31 March 2023. He counts over 40 years of experience in audits of conglomerates and listed companies with diversified business interests.
He served as a Partner at KPMG Sri Lanka and Maldives for 33 years. During this period, He also served the Firm as the Head of HR, Risk Management Partner and Chief Operating Officer before he was appointed as the Managing Partner of the Firm. He served on the KPMG Middle East & South Asia Board during his tenure as Managing Partner of the Firm.
Mr. Perera is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA) and a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA)- UK.
Mr. Perera served as the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) during the years 2006 and 2007 and was a former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Auditing Standards Committee. He also served as a Board Member of the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA), one of four regional organizations (ROs) recognized by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).
He has also served as a Member of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, Member of the Monetary Policy Consultative Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Member of the Governing Council of the Post Graduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and as a Consultant to Audit Committees of Listed Companies.
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