Exterminators appoints Chaaminda Ratnayake as Chairman

Exterminators Limited, Sri Lanka’s premier environmental enhancement solutions provider appointed Chaaminda Ratnayake as the Chairman cum Non-Executive Independent Director.

Ratnayake specialized as a strategic management expert in multifarious programmes covering the areas of operational excellence, ESG management, digital supply chain, integrated work systems, strategic human resources including change management, regenerative leadership and ambidexterity, enterprise resource optimization, industry 4.0 and digital disruptions. 

Currently he engages as an enterprise system and lean 4.0 specialist for Printcare Group, SAP & change management external consultant for John Keells Holdings, industry 4.0 strategist for Atlas Axilia. Furthermore, he works as a strategic management consultant for Sri Lanka Institute of Printing. 

During last three years, his major contributions for the manufacturing industry domain could be stated as the introduction of pragmatic approach of integrated quality management eco-system for Printcare Group and mathematical model for automatic expiry tracking for the Keells Super Market chain. Also, he worked as a lead consultant in inventory optimization program at Lanka Tiles and ROCEL Group aiming 250-300 million LKR savings per annum. 

He is one of few trained facilitators in Sri Lanka for industry revolution 4.0 and digital operations management strategies for MBA programmes of Australian Institute of Management and University of Bedfordshire – UK under the Oxford College of Business, Sri Lanka. 

Also he was a senior visiting lecturer of faculty of graduate studies, University of Colombo for ERP, MRP, strategic inventory optimization and manufacturing planning and control in masters in manufacturing management program. 

He works at NSBM as visiting lecturer under the areas of project risk and quality management and project human resource management. 

Ratnayake studied at Royal College, Colombo and obtained his masters in manufacturing management from university of Colombo in 2009. Worked as Deputy General Manager - supply chain and manufacturing processes at Aitken Spence Printing & Packaging (Pvt) Ltd from 2013-2018. 

He was a senior SAP – PP/QM/PM consultant for John Keells Holdings, Strategic Group IT and worked as a senior manager ERP and group quality assurance manager at Printcare Group (2001-2009).