Manohari Abeyesekera
Orient Finance, a member of the Janashakthi Group, has appointed Manohari Abeyesekera as an Independent Non-Executive Director to the Company’s Board of Directors, from March 26. Abeyesekera is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant with over 20 years of post-qualification experience in leadership C-suite executive positions in the private and state sectors in Sri Lanka.
She currently serves as a Global Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA UK), a Council Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID), and a Board Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board (SLASSMB), which serves as a regulator.
Abeyesekera serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Kapruka Holdings PLC. Previously, Manohari has held multiple leadership roles during her 18-year tenure (2002-2020) with the Hayleys Group. She was associated with Hayleys PLC, the parent company, and served as the Head of Strategic Business Development until May 2019. In May 2019, she was appointed as the Director of Strategy and Business Development at Fentons Limited, the engineering arm of the Hayleys Group. Manohari also served as a Director of Hayleys Group Services (Pvt) Ltd, the Group’s Company Secretarial arm, from 2012 to 2020.
