From left: CIMA Sri Lanka Manager CPD and Events Tania Samarasinghe, CIMA Sri Lanka Country Head Radley Stephen, Janashakthi Insurance PLC Chief Executive Officer Jude Fernando and Janashakthi Insurance PLC Head of Marketing Manindri Bandaranayake

From left: CIMA Sri Lanka Country Head Radley Stephen, CIMA Sri Lanka Board Chairman Manjula De Silva, Janashakthi General Insurance Limited Chief Operating Officer Dayalanie Abeygunawardena and CIMA Regional Director Asia Pacific Venkkat Ramanan

Janashakthi Insurance PLC, a leading insurance provider in Sri Lanka, announced its partnership with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Sri Lanka as the strategic partner for the recently concluded CIMA Business Leaders’ Summit for the second consecutive year. 
The event held on August 23 and 24, 2016 is a prominent stage for compelling and informative discussions with the theme for this year being ‘Joining the Dots’.
The CIMA Business Leaders’ Summit has proven to be a calendar highlight amongst corporates in Sri Lanka, providing enhanced clarity to the intellectuals gathered at the forum. This year’s topics comprised areas such as integrated thinking, value creation, disruptive innovation and managing the value of human capital.
The event commenced with the inauguration ceremony on August 23, at which Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama addressed the audience, followed by the keynote address made by Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy. A stellar line-up of preeminent speakers and panellists from diverse industries shared insights on key subject areas through the course of the two-day event.
“It is with great pleasure that we partnered the CIMA Business Leaders’ Summit for the second consecutive year as its Strategic Partner, reiterating our commitment towards an initiative that collaborates some of the best minds in the corporate and accounting sectors across the world,” said Janashakthi Insurance PLC Chief Executive Officer Jude Fernando.
“Having a strategic partner in the stature and standing of Janashakthi is undoubtedly an honour and a great boost to the Business Leaders’ Summit and we are most grateful to them for having partnered us for the second successive year,” said CIMA Sri Lanka Country Head Radley Stephen.