Ravi Tissera appointed as HNB Finance Non-Executive Director

11 April 2024 12:20 am Views - 250

Ravi Tissera has been appointed to the board of HNB Finance PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director, effective from April 4, 2024.
Tissera is an inclusive finance, impact investing, green finance and MSME sector specialist, with over 15 years’ experience as a CEO, both in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
He was the founder CEO of LOLC Micro Credit Ltd in 2008, which later merged with LOLC Finance PLC (LOFC) in 2018. He continued as Executive Deputy Chairman/CEO of the merged entity until February 2020. He moved to Myanmar in 2020 as CEO of Early Dawn
Microfinance Ltd. 

He was instrumental in the transformation of BRAC Sri Lanka, a non-governmental organisation, to a non-bank financial institution (NBFI) and expanded microfinance entities outside Sri Lanka for the LOLC group, in Myanmar, Cambodia, Pakistan
and Zambia.
He has served as an Alternate Director of Seylan Bank PLC. He led the first US dollar syndicate debt finance to the NBFI sector in
Sri Lanka.