Board of
Directors

Dr. Cabral is a President’s Counsel in Sri Lanka with thirty-two years’ experience in the field of Company Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Securities Laws, International Trade Law & Commercial Arbitration. He has been a President’s Counsel for fifteen years and commands an extensive practice in the Commercial High Courts and the Supreme Courts of Sri Lanka. He holds a doctorate in Corporate Law from the University of Canberra, Australia and is a sitting member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Paris. Dr. Cabral is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (UK). Dr. Cabral is also Representative Member of the Federation of Integrated Conflict Management (FICM) as well as a Representative Member of the International Commercial Disputes Tribunal (ICDT).

Dr. Cabral is a President’s Counsel in Sri Lanka with thirty-two years’ experience in the field of Company Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Securities Laws, International Trade Law & Commercial Arbitration. He has been a President’s Counsel for fifteen years and commands an extensive practice in the Commercial High Courts and the Supreme Courts of Sri Lanka. He holds a doctorate in Corporate Law from the University of Canberra, Australia and is a sitting member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Paris. Dr. Cabral is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (UK). Dr. Cabral is also Representative Member of the Federation of Integrated Conflict Management (FICM) as well as a Representative Member of the International Commercial Disputes Tribunal (ICDT).

Dr. Cabral is a member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka, a member of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, a member of the Intellectual Property Advisory Commission of Sri Lanka, a member of the UGC Standing Committee on Legal Matters, UGC Nominee on the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), a Board Director at SLIIT and a member of the Board of Management of the NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka. He is a Council Member of the Institute for the Development of Commercial Law & Practice (ICLP) and the Course Director for the Diploma in Commercial Arbitration and the Short Course in Intellectual Property Law. As a member of the Advisory Commission on Company Law in Sri Lanka, Dr. Cabral was one of the architects of the Companies Act No. 7 of 2007, the current Act. As a member of the Council of Legal Education in Sri Lanka, as a member the Ministerial Committee appointed to reform Commercial Arbitration in Sri Lanka, as a Founder Board Member of the Sri Lanka International Arbitration Centre, as a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, as a member of the National Science Foundation, and as the current Vice President of BRIPASL (Business Recovery & Insolvency Practitioners Association of Sri Lanka) Dr. Cabral has contributed immensely to the legal academia and the corporate community of Sri Lanka.

He serves as the Chairman of the Tokyo Cement Group, which commands the largest market share for cement in Sri Lanka. He was the immediate past Chairman of LOLC Finance PLC, one of the largest Finance Companies in Sri Lanka. He was a senior Director of the Union Bank of Sri Lanka. Dr. Cabral serves as Independent Non-Executive Director of Hatton National Bank PLC, DIMO PLC, Hayleys PLC, Alumex PLC, Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC, Tokyo Super Cement Company Lanka (Private) Limited, Tokyo Cement Power Lanka (Private) Limited, Tokyo Eastern Cement Company (Private) Limited, Tokyo Super Aggregate (Private) Limited, Tokyo Supermix (Private) Limited, World Export Centre Limited, CCC-ICLP Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre (Guarantee) Limited and Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (Guarantee) Limited (SLIIT) and serves on several Audit Committees, Nomination Committees, Remuneration Committees and the Related Party Transaction Committee, chairing most of them.

Dr. Cabral is a visiting lecturer at several Universities (local and international) and a regular speaker at public seminars, author of several books and has presented several papers on Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Trade Law & Commercial Arbitration here and abroad. In addition to his active practice in courts and lecturing, he has been a counsel in many a Arbitration and has served as Sole-Arbitrator, Co-Arbitrator and Chairman in a large number of Arbitrations, domestic and international.

Mr. S R Gnanam was appointed to the Board in 1983. He has over 30 years of experience in business management, strategic planning and social and economic research. He is the Chairman of Orion City Limited, South Asian Investment (Pvt) Limited, St. Anthony’s Hardware (Pvt) Limited and Capital City Holdings (Pvt) Limited. He also serves as the Managing Director of St. Anthony’s Consolidated (Pvt) Limited, St. Anthony’s Hydro Power (Pvt) Limited, Sofia Hospitality (Pvt) Limited and many other Companies.

Mr. S R Gnanam was appointed to the Board in 1983. He has over 30 years of experience in business management, strategic planning and social and economic research. He is the Chairman of Orion City Limited, South Asian Investment (Pvt) Limited, St. Anthony’s Hardware (Pvt) Limited and Capital City Holdings (Pvt) Limited. He also serves as the Managing Director of St. Anthony’s Consolidated (Pvt) Limited, St. Anthony’s Hydro Power (Pvt) Limited, Sofia Hospitality (Pvt) Limited and many other Companies.

Mr. A D B Talwatte is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of the U.K. He also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business and Financial Administration awarded by the ICASL and the University of Wageningen, Holland and has a MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Mr. Talwatte has also participated in a Kellogg Executive Programme at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, North-western University, Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Talwatte worked at Ernst & Young in Assurance, Business Risk and Advisory Services for 37 years, including 10 years as Country Managing Partner. He has worked with Ernst & Young in Cleveland, Ohio and also served on Ernst & Young’s Far-East Area Executive Committee, the Area Advisory Council and the ASEAN Leadership Committee.

Mr. A D B Talwatte is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of the U.K. He also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business and Financial Administration awarded by the ICASL and the University of Wageningen, Holland and has a MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Mr. Talwatte has also participated in a Kellogg Executive Programme at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, North-western University, Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Talwatte worked at Ernst & Young in Assurance, Business Risk and Advisory Services for 37 years, including 10 years as Country Managing Partner. He has worked with Ernst & Young in Cleveland, Ohio and also served on Ernst & Young’s Far-East Area Executive Committee, the Area Advisory Council and the ASEAN Leadership Committee.

Mr. Talwatte was President of the CA Sri Lanka for a two-year period in 2002/2003 and the CIMA in 1995/96. He also served as the Chairman of the Statutory Accounting Standards Committee and the Auditing Standards Committee, the Urgent Issues Task Force and the Examinations Committee of the ICASL.
Mr. Talwatte has been closely associated with the development of Corporate Governance in Sri Lanka being actively involved with the Code of Audit Committees in 2002 and the Code of Corporate Governance in 2003. He co-chaired the Committees to structure the revised Codes of Corporate Governance of 2008, 2012 and 2017 and the Listing Rules of 2008. He currently chairs the International Integrated Reporting Council of Sri Lanka (IIRSL) on behalf of CA Sri Lanka.

Mr. Talwatte serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on boards of several listed companies.

Mr. Dias was appointed as a Director in 2014. He holds a Degree in Law and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers (UK). He is also a Hubert H Humphrey fellow. He is an Alumnus of the INSEAD Business School - France, having attended the Advanced Management Program in Fontainebleau.

Mr. Dias was appointed as a Director in 2014. He holds a Degree in Law and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers (UK). He is also a Hubert H Humphrey fellow. He is an Alumnus of the INSEAD Business School - France, having attended the Advanced Management Program in Fontainebleau.

He serves on the Boards of Carson Cumberbatch PLC and South Asia Textile Industries (Pvt) Ltd. He serves as Chairman of the Boards and companies of Seylan Bank PLC, Senkadagala Finance PLC and Ceylon Tea Marketing (Pvt) Ltd.

Mr. Dias served Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC for four decades as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Dias has also served on the Boards of Commercial Development Company PLC, Lanka Clear Limited, Lanka Financial Services Bureau Limited and Commercial Insurance Brokers (Pvt) Ltd.

He was a committee member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and was a Council Member of the Employers Federation of Ceylon.

Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswarmy served on the Board of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC from March 2011 to June 2016, till his appointment as the 14th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswarmy served on the Board of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC from March 2011 to June 2016, till his appointment as the 14th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

He served as the Governor of CBSL from July 2016 to December 2019. He was reappointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director in March 2020 subsequent to his retirement from the Central Bank.

Dr. Coomaraswarmy has over thirty years of experience in policy making and providing economic advisory services, on both macroeconomic and structural issues at National and Intergovernmental levels. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Economics from the Cambridge University of UK and subsequently obtained a Doctorate from the University of Sussex. He was formerly a Director, Economic Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Mr. Fernando was appointed as the Group General Manager in 1991. He is a Director of the Tokyo Super Cement Company Lanka (Pvt) Limited, Tokyo Cement Power (Lanka) (Pvt) Limited, Tokyo Eastern Cement Company (Pvt) Limited, Tokyo Supermix (Private) Limited and Joint Managing Director of the Tokyo Super Aggregate (Pvt) Limited. He counts over twenty-five years of experience across various industries. He has a B.A (Hons) Econ, B. Phil (Hons) Econ. and is a FCMA, FCA and an Attorney-At-Law.

Mr. Fernando was appointed as the Group General Manager in 1991. He is a Director of the Tokyo Super Cement Company Lanka (Pvt) Limited, Tokyo Cement Power (Lanka) (Pvt) Limited, Tokyo Eastern Cement Company (Pvt) Limited, Tokyo Supermix (Private) Limited and Joint Managing Director of the Tokyo Super Aggregate (Pvt) Limited. He counts over twenty-five years of experience across various industries. He has a B.A (Hons) Econ, B. Phil (Hons) Econ. and is a FCMA, FCA and an Attorney-At-Law.

Mr. Shuichi Nakamoto joined the Board of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC from 1st April 2023 as Nominee and Non-Executive Director of UBE Singapore Private Limited.

Mr. Shuichi Nakamoto joined the Board of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC from 1st April 2023 as Nominee and Non-Executive Director of UBE Singapore Private Limited.

Mr. Shuichi Nakamoto, serves as the Managing Director of UBE Singapore Private Limited, a company incorporated in Singapore. He holds a Masters’ degree in Business Administration from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Kansai University, Japan. He has wide experience in leveraging consultative selling and distribution strategies.

Mr. Praveen Gnanam graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Marshall School of Business, with a concentration in Global Marketing, in addition to a concentration in Entrepreneurship from the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Mr. Praveen Gnanam graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Marshall School of Business, with a concentration in Global Marketing, in addition to a concentration in Entrepreneurship from the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He also minored in Nonprofits, Philanthropy and Volunteerism from the Sol Price School of Public Policy and was an Inaugural Society and Business Fellow of the USC Marshall School of Business. He has worked in Consulting for Los Angeles-based firm Innovation Protocol, and as a Research Analyst and a Brand Associate for Fortune 500 clients such as eBay, PayPal and Republic Waste Management.

Mr. Praveen Gnanam joined Tokyo Cement Group in 2012 as Special Projects Coordinator and in 2015 was promoted to Director Innovations, a role in which he provides executive management oversight in product development, operational management, and marketing strategy for the Groups’ Cement-based Value-Added Products Business Unit. He has over a decade of experience in the hardware and construction materials industry as well as in renewable energy. As a member of the Senior Executive Management of Tokyo Cement Group, in addition to the Innovations Business Unit, Mr. Praveen Gnanam guides the strategic direction of the Group’s branding, communication and marketing, investor relations, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and IT business functions.

He is the Managing Director of St Anthony’s Hardware (Pvt) Ltd and sits on the Boards of Directors of Tokyo Eastern Cement Company (Pvt) Ltd, Tokyo Super Aggregate (Pvt) Ltd, St Anthony’s Consolidated (Pvt) Ltd, and is a Trustee of the A.Y.S. Gnanam Elders Homes.

Mr. Mano Sekaram is a renowned tech entrepreneur and investor in the Sri Lankan IT industry with over 30 years of experience in the corporate arena

Mr. Mano Sekaram is a renowned tech entrepreneur and investor in the Sri Lankan IT industry with over 30 years of experience in the corporate arena. He is the Founder and Chairman of 99x Technology Sri Lanka and Asia, and Board Member of 99x Investment AS Norway, an award-winning digital product engineering company serving European markets. He was featured on the prestigious LMD100 Club for both 2019 and 2020, which highlights the A-list of Sri Lankan businesspeople driving the Nation’s growth. He was awarded the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by the British Computer Society (BCS) at the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2014, for his vast contributions to the ICT industry.

In furthering IT education and aligning the university curricula to industry needs, Mr. Sekaram has contributed as a Board Member of both the University of Jaffna and the University of Colombo, School of Computing. He is a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Consultative Committee for Computer Science. In addition, Mr. Sekaram sits on the Board of the Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC) and is also a past Chairman of the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM), the apex body of the Sri Lankan IT/BPM sector. In August 2023, Mr. Sekaram was appointed as the Honorary Consul General for Norway in Sri Lanka.

Mrs. Averil Anne Ludowyke, FCA (CA Sri Lanka), FCMA (UK), counts over 26 years of experience at Ernst & Young and has served as a Partner from 2011 to 2022

Mrs. Averil Anne Ludowyke, FCA (CA Sri Lanka), FCMA (UK), counts over 26 years of experience at Ernst & Young and has served as a Partner from 2011 to 2022. She was lead Audit Partner at M/S Ernst & Young, of several groups of companies, and she launched and led forensics and integrity services of the firm. Her clients included banks and finance companies, and companies engaged in retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, construction, real estate, shipping and logistics, leisure, plantations and development.

She also counts for over 13 years of senior level experience in finance and accounting in the manufacturing sector, and in a relief and development organization. She is also an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Seylan Bank PLC, Ceylinco Life Insurance Ltd., and Bogala Graphite PLC. Mrs. Averil Ludowyke has been a resource person for the Director Certification Program of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors, and the Certificate Course on Forensic Auditing of CA Sri Lanka. She has also conducted several public seminars with the CIMA, the Ministry of Public Enterprise Development, National Chamber of Commerce, ACCA, AAT, CMA and has been a panellist/presenter at the ACAMS Regional Conference of the Indian Subcontinent, the Annual Conference of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and at programs conducted by the University of Kelaniya.