Amirthanayagam appointed People’s Leasing Chairman

Pradeep Amirthanayagam has been appointed as the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the People’s Leasing and Finance PLC with effect from 12 September.

He was appointed to the Board of People’s Leasing & Finance PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the 15th of July 2022. 

On previous occasion he had served on the Board of People’s Leasing as the Deputy Chairman from 2015-2019 and briefly as the Chairman in 2019/2020. He had also been a Director of the Lankan Alliance Finance Ltd in Bangladesh. 

Amirthanayagam is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and an Associate Member of Trinity College of Music, UK in Speech and Drama. Amirthanayagam is also a media icon. He was a News Presenter for Rupavahini, ITN and SLBC media networks. He was also an interviewer and a cricket commentator. He also had the distinction of having trained at “Bush House”, the headquarters of BBC in London.

Amirthanayagam was preceded by Sujeewa Rajapakse and with the appointment of Amirthanayagam as the Independent Non Executive Chairman of People’s Leasing, the Board of Directors of People’s Leasing comprises of R. Pathirage, K.C.J.C. Fonseka, A.A. Ahamat, C.J. Wijetillake, U.L.A.W. Bandara, M.C. Pietersz, and R. Kodituwakku.