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Managing Director of Kelani Valley Plantations PLC and Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC and a member of the Hayleys Group Management Committee. Appointed as Managing Director of Horana Plantations PLC and as a Director of Vallibel Plantations Management Limited effective March 2017. Prior to rejoining, served as Director/CEO of Kahawatta Plantations PLC. He held Senior Plantation Management positions in Kelani Valley Plantations PLC from 1993 to 2001.. Has a Diploma in Marketing (UK), National Diploma in Plantation Management (NIPM), BSc. In Plantation Management and an MBA from the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture, Peradeniya. A Fellow Member of the National Institute of Plantation Management and Institute of Management, Sri Lanka. Former Chairman of the Plantersâ€" Association of Sri Lanka, Member of the Tea Board, Member of the Rubber Research Board. Currently a board member of the Tea Research Institute and Tea Small Holder Development Authority and a member of the Tea Council of Sri Lanka. He was appointed to the Tea Advisory Boards on Manufacturing and Cultivation and Production of the Sri Lanka Quality Charter for Tea. The Chairman of the Consultative Committee on Estate and Advisory Services, Experiment and Extension Forum of the Tea Research Institute and is a Member of the Consultative Committee on Research of the TRI. Also a member of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, veterinary and Animal sciences of the University Grant Commission as well as a Member of the Arbitration and Mediation Steering Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.