Tishan Subasinghe, is a Fellow and Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) and the Managing Director and Joint Managing Partner of Moore Stephens Consulting (Private) Limited and Moore Stephens Aiyar respectively. Before that he was the Head of Audit and Assurance at BDO Partners. He is also the Chairman of Sanasa General Insurance Company Limited and is also a Council Member of the University of Moratuwa.
His profession also expands overseas where he had work experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Botswana spanning several years. These were supported by the international training that he has undergone in USA, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Malaysia, Indonesia and Rome.
As a member of CA Sri Lanka, Tishan has served as the Chairman of the Annual Report Awards Committee, National Conference Committee and Examinations Committee. He also held the post of Vice President of the Young Chartered Accountants Forum (YCAF).
Tishan is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA-USA) and has an MBA in Finance by the University of Colombo with a Gold Medal and has earned an LLB (Hons.) degree from the Buckinghamshire New University. He is also a visiting lecturer at several Government Universities and had also conducted international training in Maldives and Bhutan.
Mr. Mohammed Ataur Rahman Chowdhury is a seasoned financial sector specialist, having spent more than 20 years across in the Financial Institutions domain covering multiple geographic regions across Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. His diversified experience was spent mostly in senior roles in direct financing, investment banking, commercial banking, FI equities, board representations and turning around financial institutions. Joined in 2007, at present, Mr. Chowdhury is Acting Director, Equity Department & Head of Banking Investments at Business Solution Complex at the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD); the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group providing strategic direction, advice and financial solution to investees and partner institutions across banking, Ijarah (Leasing), mortgage financing, takaful, liquidity management and investment company operations to become profitable and sustainable. Prior to that, Mr. Chowdhury, at various capacity under equity operations, led establishments and formulating strategies of more than 15 Islamic Financial Institutions with aggregate portfolio of nearly USD 260 million.
He is an experienced and veteran board member with proven track of transforming financial institutions from loss making into profitable. He has joined the Board of Taiba Finance in Uzbekistan in April 2022. He is a former Board member in Maldives Islamic Bank Limited for the period 2012-2022 and played vital roles in the foundation, growth, and public listing stage of the bank. Briefly, Mr. Chowdhury also worked as Adviser, Financial Institutions for The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, UK on secondment from ICD.
Mr. Chowdhury’s professional career, preceding his ICD tenor, included 7 years in Bangladesh’s financial sector, holding the roles of: Corporate Relationship Manager in Commercial Bank of Ceylon Limited (Bangladesh operation), Investment Manager in IPDC (the first Development Financial Institution in the country) and Senior Investment Analyst in BRAC-EPL (a premier investment bank in the country).
A well-learned individual, Mr. Chowdhury holds an MBA in Finance from IE Business School, Spain, and another MBA in Finance & Accounting from North South University, Bangladesh. He has also earned a Diploma in Board Certification of Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, United Kingdom.
Mohamed Adamaly is a leading legal professional in Sri Lanka having a wide Civil Law practice in the Original Courts and Appellate Courts, with a focus on Commercial Law, Labour Law, Insurance Law, and Banking & Credit related laws. Adamaly also specializes in Investment Advisory, Business Set-up/Restructuring Services and Corporate Acquisitions.
Adamaly graduated from the Faculty of Law University of Colombo with Honours while also achieving First Class Honours from the Sri Lanka Law College before being admitted as an Attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1994. Adamaly has served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Colombo and at the Sri Lanka Law College. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM UK) and is a leading lecture for CIM and formerly for CIMA, in Sri Lanka.
In view of his combined legal, Marketing and business expertise, Adamaly holds and has held directorships in several public and private companies including in the David Peiris Group, Bogala Graphite Lanka PLC, Assetline Leasing Company Limited and Sinwa Holdings Limited. Adamaly is also a leading thespian and cinema personality in the country and has received the National TOYP Award for his contribution to Drama and Literature.
Delvin Pereira is a highly skilled professional banker with over 35 years of experience, counting 15 years in senior management. He commenced his career at Commercial Bank of Ceylon Ltd in 1985 as a bank clerk and thereafter joined Seylan Bank, where he ascended the corporate hierarchy, progressing from a branch manager to a regional manager, attaining the position of Deputy General Manager. In this role, he provided dynamic leadership, comprehensive training, and invaluable guidance to a team of over 200 managers, steering them towards the achievement of the organization's business objectives. His wide range of managerial experience ranges from credit analysis and credit management to SME and Retail Banking, Consumer Financing, Risk Management, Trade, and Branch Business Banking. In the process, he has developed a range of management skills covering credit, risk, human resource, trade, operational banking, sales and marketing, service quality, project management, and delinquency which have all been used positively towards the success and growth of his organization. Further, he has excelled in trade finance, skilfully underwriting trade finance credit lines, and fostering international trade and global partnerships. He was also responsible for setting up the Bank’s factoring division.
Mr. Pereira honed his extensive banking skills by participating in specialized overseas training programs that covered diverse facets of banking and finance. These included Project Finance, SME and Microcredit, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Banca-assurance, IFRS/ÍAS accounting standards, as well as international money laundering and anti-money laundering practices. His enriching learning experiences took place during workshops held in prominent locations such as Singapore, Malaysia, India, and the Philippines. He also actively represented Seylan Bank. at conferences, such as the Asian Bankers Conference in Mumbai, India, in 2004, and the Asia Pacific Banca-Assurance Conference in Manila in 2018. He possesses a Master's in Business Administration from the prestigious University of Western Sydney in Australia, complemented by the esteemed qualification of Certified Management Accountant Australia. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Bankers Sri Lanka.
During his tenure at Seylan Bank, he served on several committees supporting the governance of the organization which includes the Assets and Management Committee (ALCO), Integrated Risk Management Committee, Credit Committee, and Procurement Committee among others. In risk management, he played a pivotal role in formulating and executing a comprehensive Credit Risk Management (CRM) policy and Customer Credit Rating framework, ensuring regulatory compliance and sound risk practices. Additionally, his project management skills were evident as he led the successful implementation of the BASEL II risk management framework and the Movement Account Delinquency Management program. He also contributed to the adoption of IAS/IFRS accounting standards by serving its committee as an active member.
Beyond his professional career, Mr Pereira has been an active social worker serving the Rotary Organization since 1994. He has held significant leadership positions within Rotary International District 3220 comprising Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and in recognition of his contributions towards community service, he was unanimously elected to serve as District Governor for Sri Lanka and Maldives for the period 2025/26.
Mr. Azreen is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICASL) of Sri Lanka, Fellow Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA) of Sri Lanka, Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK, and is a Certified Risk Analyst (CRA).
Mr. Azreen started his career in 1991 at KPMG in Colombo, Sri Lanka and then joined Ernst & Young (“EY”), Bahrain Office in October 1996 as Senior Accountant. He was assigned the responsibilities of managing the Business Community Training Unit (BCTU) that provides in house training to EY employees and its clients on various accounting and finance disciplines. He then joined Kuwait Finance House, Kuwait (“KFHK”) in 1999 as Investment Manager, Direct Investment Department. He was later transferred to head the Banking Performance Monitoring Unit and the Credit Due Diligence Unit of International Banking Sector which oversee the performances of the banking subsidiaries.
In 2011, Mr. Azreen was appointed as the Non-Independent/Non-Executive Director (NINED) of Kuwait Finance House Malaysia Berhad and served 2 terms (from the year 2011 to 2017). He held various Board responsibilities including Chairing the Board Transformation Steering Committee (BTSC) where he worked with international consultants in restructuring the Bank's portfolio and developing and implementing a new credit underwriting guideline. Mr. Azreen developed a special product called Profit Sharing Investment Account (PSIA) that minimized the adverse impact on the performance of the bank which was unprecedented at the time was approved by Bank Negara Malaysia. During the same period, he was appointed as Director of other Malaysian subsidiaries which include an offshore bank (KFH Labuan Berhad), an asset management company (KFH Asset Management Berhad) and a leasing company (KFH Ijarah House).
Mr. Azreen was re-appointed as an Independent/Non-Executive Director of Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad (“KFHMB”) on 1 March 2020. Currently he serves as Chairman of the Board Audit committee and the Board Nomination and Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Azreen is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Advisory (Pvt.) Ltd, a company that provide a range of advisory services on accounting, tax and business-related matters.
