Mr. Sathananthan Sudarshanis the President of the Institute of
Chartered Corporate Secretaries of Sri Lanka He was appointed as
the Company Secretary of Siyapatha Finance PLC with effect from 7th
December 2015.
He is a Chartered Secretary by profession and is an Associate of
the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (UK) and
the Institute of Chartered Corporate Secretaries in Sri Lanka.
He has been awarded a MBA from the University of Lincoln, Hull,
United Kingdom.
He successfully completed the "Company Director's Course'
conducted by the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance
on behalf of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation.
After completing his education at Ananda College, Colombo 10, he
started on his Company Secretay career at Hulugalle Associates
(Pvt) Limited. Later he joined the Corporate Secretarial division
of PricewaterhouseCoopers.(PWC) where gained wide experience in
many industries.
After a few years he joined Pugoda Textiles; a subsidiary of an
Indian Multi National Company and was appointed it's Company
Secretary.
He later joined Sampath Bank PLC as it's Company Secretary and
was later appointed Group Company Secretary. He served the longest
tenure as a Company Secretary of a listed Bank. He is well versed
in Board room activities in advising Board's and on Corporate
Governance. He is well acquainted with Stock Exchange activities
and has been Manager to a few debenture issues in his personal
capacity.
He was appointed as an Independent Director of Hull Investments
(Pvt)Limited; a property owning company.
