Our Profile

Mr Rajendra Theagarajah
Managing Director/
Chief Executive Officer
F.C.M.A. (U.K.), F.I.B (Hon) (Sri Lanka), M.B.A. (Cranfield), F.C.A
(Sri Lanka)

Appointed Director/General Manager/Chief Executive Officer in December 2004. He was appointed Managing Director in December 2005. Member of the Corporate Management of HNB since 1997. He counts over 26 years of experience in banking both in Europe and Sri Lanka.

He is a director of all the Group companies within HNB and also serves as Chairman of Lanka Financial Services Bureau, member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Sri Lanka Governing Board, member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce EXCO, member of the Sri Lanka Auditing Quality Assurance Board and Council Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors. Mr Theagarajah is a past Chairman of the Sri Lanka Banks' Association and Past President of the Association of Professional Bankers. He is the first Sri Lankan to assume Chairmanship of the Asian Bankers' Association from November 1st 2010 for a two-year tenure.

Appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director. w.e.f 15th February 2010.

Ms Cooray had a distinguished career of over 35 years with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Finance and served as Secretary to the Monetary Board of Sri Lanka prior to her retirement in May 2009. From 1999 - 2004, she served as the Director General - Fiscal Policy and Economic Affairs Department of the Ministry of Finance, on release from the Central Bank. During that period, she served on the Boards of DFCC Bank, Ceylon Electricity Board, Sri Lanka Export Development Board, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd., De La Rue Lanka Currency and Security Print (Pvt.) Ltd. and Tariff Advisory Council representing the Government of Sri Lanka. She has been the Vice Chairperson of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka from 2005 - 2009.

Appointed director on 31st March 2011. Dr Gamage currently serves as the Secretary to the Ministry of State Resources & Enterprises Development, while serving as the Chairman/CEO of the Strategic Enterprise Management Agency (SEMA).

He has over 30 years of wide experience in the public, private and non-governmental organisations, having served several of such organisations in different capacities. He has extensive experience in formulating and implementing several projects on poverty alleviation, local economic development, promoting alternative energy generation and enhancing capacities in public enterprises.

Dr Gamage has also contributed immensely to the local and regional development initiatives in the areas of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, Small Scale Fisheries Development, Community Development, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Rural Enterprise Development and Rural Housing Development.

Dr Karunaratne is the incumbent president of the Ceylon Institute of Builders (CIOB), engaged in developing the construction industry and construction builders in Sri Lanka. He is the Managing Director of A.K.K.Engineers (Pvt) Ltd., an Engineering Company specialized in building construction, civil engineering, water supply and waste water, construction of swimming pools and now in road construction, the Chairman of Associated Motor Finance Co Ltd and is also the Deputy Chairman of the International Institute of Management.

He has over 27 years of experience in Civil Engineering, Building Construction, Engineering Consultancy, Construction Training, lecturing in Civil Construction, Designing & Planning. He was the past Chairman of the National Construction Association of Sri Lanka and was the first Chairman of Human Resource Development (Pvt) Ltd.

Dr Karunaratne holds a PhD in Management and a MBA from the Sussex University (UK). He is an Engineering Graduate of the University of Hindustan and an advanced Diploma holder in HIET (Chennai - India). He is a Fellow of the International Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Ceylon Institute of Builders.