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Asanga Seneviratne appointed to CSE Board 

27 Sep 2021

The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has appointed Asanga C. Seneviratne as a Director of the CSE Board. The appointment came into effect on 23 September 2021. Prior to this appointment he has served the Board of the CSE as a Director during the period from 2013 to 2017.  Seneviratne is a Founder and was a Director of Asia Capital PLC, an investment bank  that was listed on the CSE in 1994. He was the Managing Director of Asia Securities (Pvt.) Ltd. and CEO of Asia Capital Ltd. from 2003 to 2010.  He was with Asia Securities and Asia Capital for 19 years and has experience in finance and investments, capital management, and the hospitality industry.  Seneviratne has also pioneered online trading in Sri Lanka through his company Investor Access Asia (Pvt.) Ltd. with CDAX; the first online trading system in Sri Lanka, enabling direct access to the CSE from the client’s personal computer. Thirty percent of the total trades on the CSE were executed via this system during that period.  He was instrumental in restructuring Nation Lanka Finance PLC under the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) programme in 2011 to resurrect failed licensed finance entities.  Currently, he holds the chairmanship of Nation Lanka Equities (Pvt.) Ltd. as well as the position of Managing Director of Asia Fort Asset Management (Pvt.) Ltd., Anilana Hotels and Properties PLC, and Investor Access Equities (Pvt.) Ltd.  Moreover, he has served as Director of the CSE, Chairman of NatWealth Securities, and Director of Nation Lanka Finance PLC.  Apart from financial exposure, Seneviratne has represented Sri Lanka in cricket and rugby and serves as Vice President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka and is an Independent Committee Member and Chairman of Competitions and High-Performance Sports.  Further, he has held the position of Chairman of the Stockbrokers’ Association of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2006, President of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union from 2012 to 2018, Secretary General of Asia Rugby, and Vice President of Sri Lanka Cricket from 2013 to 2016.


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