Board of Directors N G Wickremeratne CHAIRMAN (NON-EXECUTIVE) Joined Hayleys in 1971. Chief Executive of DPL from its inception and Director since 1981. Managing Director since 1983 and Chairman from January 2007. Appointed Group Executive Director of Hayleys in 1983 and to its Board in 1986. Deputy Chairman of Hayleys since 2004 and Chairman & Chief Executive from January 2007. BSc graduate, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Chaired the Sri Lanka Association of Manufacturers and Exporters of Rubber Products. Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and served as its representative on the National Labour Advisory Council. Past president of the Sri Lanka – France Business Council. J A G Anandarajah MANAGING Joined DPL in 1980. Appointed to the Board in 1989 and Managing Director since January 2007. Appointed to the Hayleys Group Management Committee in 2001 and to the Board of Hayleys in January 2007. Chemistry (Honours) graduate, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Member of the Board of Management, Industrial Technology Institute, Sri Lanka. R W Soysa (To 31/03/2009) OPERATIONS Serving DPL since its inception in 1976. Appointed to the Board in 1988. Licentiate of the Plastics & Rubber Institute. Recipient of the Commonwealth and Foreign Office Scholarship awarded by the British government in 1985. Recipient of the Merit Award, 1988, of the Plastics & Rubber Institute of Sri Lanka. Dr W S E Fernando (To 31/05/2009) TECHNICAL Joined DPL in 1988 and appointed to its Board in 1994 Managing Director of Dipped Products (Thailand) Ltd since 2004. Chemistry (Honours) graduate, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Awarded Msc and PhD in Polymer Technology from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK. Team Member of the UNIDO expert panel for the Thermoplastic Natural Rubber Research project. Served as a Member of the Rubber Research Board, Sri Lanka. Recipient of National Award for Scientific Achievements, 1990. G K Seneviratne PLANTATIONS Joined DPL Plantations (Pvt) Ltd in 1992 and appointed to its Board in 1995. Chief Executive of Kelani Valley Plantations <strong>PLC</strong> since 1994 and appointed to its Board in 1996. Managing Director of Kelani Valley Plantations <strong>PLC</strong> since 2004. Appointed to the DPL Board in 1998 and to the Hayleys Group Management Committee in January 2007. Past Chairman of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon. Served as a Member of Sri Lanka Tea Board, Rubber Research Board, Plantation Trust Board and the Tea Association of Sri Lanka. Joined the plantation industry in 1970. Served as Consultant, Investment Monitoring Board, JEDB/SLSPC Estates. N Y Fernando PROJECTS Joined DPL in 1985. Appointed to the Board in 2004. Mechanical Engineering (Honours) graduate, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Member/Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka. Member/Chartered Professional Engineer of the Institute of Engineers, Australia. Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering, NIBM. N B Weerasekera NON-EXECUTIVE Appointed to the Board in 2005. FCMA, BSc Physics (Honours) graduate, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Awarded MA in Economics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Regional Managing Partner for South and Central Asia, Aureos Capital Ltd. Served as Chief Executive Officer of People’s Venture Investment Company and Managing Director of Nextventures. R K Witanachchi MANUFACTURING Joined DPL in 1993. Appointed to the Board in 2005. Mechanical Engineering (Honours) graduate, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Served as General Manager Lanka Walltiles Ltd. A M Pandithage NON-EXECUTIVE Joined Hayleys in 1969. Appointed Group Executive Director in 1996 and to its Board in 1998. Deputy Chairman of Hayleys since 2007. Appointed to the DPL Board in 2007. Chief Executive of Hayleys Advantis Ltd. since its inception. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. Director, Sri Lanka Port Management & Consultancy Services Ltd. Former Chairman of the Ceylon Association of Ships’ Agents. Former Director of both the Sri Lanka Ports Authority & Jaya Container Terminals Ltd. Member of the Presidential Committee on Maritime Matters. R A Ebell ALTERNATE Joined Hayleys in 1977. Appointed Group Executive Director in 1986 and to its Board in 1989. Appointed Alternate Director to the DPL Board in 2007. FCA, FCMA, Dip. MCIM. Past President, CIMA Sri Lanka Division. R Seevaratnam INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE Appointed to the Board in 2007. BSc General graduate, University of London. FCA, England and Wales and FCA, Sri Lanka. Former Senior Partner of KPMG Ford, Rhodes, Thornton and Company. F Mohideen INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE Appointed to the Board in July 2008. Holds a degree in BSc Mathematics from the University of London and a MSc in Econometrics from the London School of Economics. Served as the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury and Director General, External Resources Department of the Ministry of Finance and Planning. K A L S Fernando TECHNICAL SERVICES Joined DPL in 1985. Appointed to the Board in April 2009. Holds a Joint Hons. BSc Degree in Chemistry and Management from University of London and a Post Graduate Diploma in TQM. L G S Gunawardena (From 01/06/2009) MEDICAL GLOVES Joined DPL in 1984. Appointed to the Board w.e.f. June 2009. Holds a MBA from the Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. D I P P E D P R O D U C T S P L C A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 8 – 2 0 0 9 17
technology 18 The high speed latex centrifuges featured above remove water and non-rubber constituents from field latex and concentrate the liquid to 60 percent dry rubber content. DPL has in place a stringent system to segregate the field latex collected from the farmers under the “Firstlight” programme. Such batches are separately centrifuged and used in the manufacture of products sold either with the “Firstlight” logo or as “Fair Trade Rubber Gloves”. D I P P E D P R O D U C T S P L C A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 8 – 2 0 0 9
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