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Sri Lanka : UNION Bank appoints Indrajit Wickramasinghe as new CEO [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Union Bank of Colombo PLC has selected Indrajit Wickramasinghe as Chief Executive Officer Designate with effect from October 15, 2014, subject to Central Bank authorization. Wickramasinghe has more than 25 years of management experience, having worked in both the financial and consumer sectors in both local and multinational companies. Having joined NDB more than 14 years ago, he has worked as the Vice President covering functions for example Marketing, Human Resources and Head of Retail Banking, a position which he held for over 7 years. Since June 2010 Wickramasinghe has been the Chief Operating Officer of NDB, in charge for all the business areas including Commercial Banking, Project Finance, SME Banking and Retail Banking. Wickramasinghe was a Non-Executive Director of Eagle Insurance/Aviva NDB Insurance, a Non-Executive Director of NDB Capital Holdings PLC, NDB Securities (Pvt) Ltd, Development Holdings (Pvt) Ltd and is a Director of the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka. Wickramasinghe, possesses a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He is a member of the Association of Professional Bankers. He has been through extensive Executive Education programmes at INSEAD (France), the Said Business School, University of Oxford (UK) and the National University of Singapore. The Chairman of Union Bank, Alex Lovell stated that the Board of Directors wished to thank Anil Amarasuriya for his immense contribution towards the success of Union Bank. The Chairman said, We now look forward to welcoming Mr. Indrajit Wickramasinghe and assure our stakeholders of a smooth transition to a new phase in Union Bank s journey . (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |