Mr. J.D. Peiris (Chairman)

Mr. Dinal Peiris is a Mechanical Engineer/MBA (Lond) and is the Chairman/Managing Director of Lanka Aluminium Industries PLC Group.

He is also the Chairman of the Group’s subsidiaries and serves on the Board of several companies in Sri Lanka and is also a Director of the Employees Trust Fund Board.

He has over 30 years of management experience and is involved with several companies, whose activities range from the manufacture of aluminium, steel products, timber/MDF, fabrics and plastics.

Mr. J.B. Abu Baker

Mr. J.B. Abu Baker, a Malaysian, graduated with a Law Degree from the International Islamic University, Malaysia. He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1995.

Mr. J.B. Abu Baker started his career as a litigation and banking lawyer in Malaysia and was in legal practice until April 1997. In June 1997, he joined a diversified Malaysian corporate group as part of their corporate legal team, specializing in corporate legal matters, corporate restructuring, corporate compliance and company secretarial practice.

Mr. J.B. Abu Baker was appointed as an Executive Director of Antah Holdings Berhad; a Malaysian public listed company in June 2005 to spearhead its corporate restructuring exercise, which was successfully completed in March 2007.

Mr. J.B. Abu Baker was then appointed as an Executive Director of another public listed company in Malaysia; Sino Hua-an International Berhad (Hua-an) that has business operations in China and served on the Board of Hua-an until June 2008, upon successfully implementing various corporate governance initiatives in compliance with the regulatory requirements.

Mr. J.B. Abu Baker currently sits on the Board of several companies in Malaysia and is a Certified Integrity Officer, a Licensed Company Secretary and a Licensed Trust Officer for offshore companies in Labuan, Malaysia.

Mr. W.I. Arambage

Mr. Arambage is a Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - UK (FCMA, CGMA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - UK and Institute of Engineers- Sri Lanka (AMIESL). He holds a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Surrey (UK).

He is a Director on the Boards of Standard Capital PLC, Standard Paints Ltd, Standard Industries (Pvt.) Ltd, Sinali Media (Pvt.) Ltd, Yehen Distributions (Pvt.) Ltd & Standard Trading Ltd. He also acts as the financial consultant for several overseas companies with operations in UK, Middle East and Africa.

Mr. M.H. Wijewardene

Group Managing Director/Group Chief Executive Officer (Appointed to the Board on 1st June 2006. Appointed as the Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Singer Group of Companies on 1st November 2018).

Mr. Mahesh Wijewardene was appointed to the Group Management Committee and also as an Executive Director and the Group Chief Executive Officer of Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC and its subsidiary companies with effect from 1st November 2018. He was appointed to the Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC Board on 1st June 2006. He counts for over 30 years of managerial experience in diverse fields of business.

Mr. Wijewardene holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern Queensland and received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. He also holds a Diploma in General Management from the Open University of Sri Lanka. He currently serves as Vice President of Sri Lanka Retailers’ Association and a Member of the International Chamber of Commerce - Policy Committee.

Mr. Wijewardene served as the past Chairman of Ceylon Chamber of Commerce - Import Section and Sri Lanka - China Business Council. He serves as a Director of Singer Finance (Lanka) PLC, Regnis Appliances (Private) Limited, Reality Lanka Limited, and Equity Investments Lanka Limited.

Mrs. Dunuwille - Company Secretary

Mrs. Dunuwille was admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She has received the Best performance Awards for Law of Property, Criminal Procedure Law and Administration & Local Government Law during her education at Sri Lanka Law College. She was also awarded the First Scholarship by the Council of Legal Education on her performance at the Preliminary Examination.

She has also been admitted to Graduateship in 1998 by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (UK) and further, to the Associateship in 2008.

Further, Mrs. Dunuwille has obtained a Post Attorney Diploma in “Finance, Banking & Insurance Laws” conducted by the Incorporated Council of Legal Education in 2012, with a Merit Pass.

During her tenure of employment, she has served as Company Secretary, Group Company Secretary, Group Legal Officer in leading institutions engaged in the Businesses of Banking, Garment, Shipping, Land Development etc.

In addition, she also served as the Compliance Officer of a leading private bank in the country.

Currently, she is engaged in private practicing in Legal/Secretarial fields, in addition to serving as Company Secretary of Equity Investments Lanka Ltd.