HDFC Bank gets new Chairman and Non-Executive Director

D. Soosaipillai and B.K. Prabath Chandrakeerthi were appointed as Independent Non-Executive Directors of the HDFC Bank of Sri Lanka, with effect from 12th April 2023. Soosaipillai was also appointed Chairman of the Board. 
HDFC Bank is led by CEO Nishaman Karunapala, a senior financial services sector leader with nearly three decades of experience and first-hand governance knowledge of the industry. He is supported by a strong corporate management team of experienced professionals with an enviable domain knowledge of the Bank and the industry they operate in.
D. Soosaipillai is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka. In a career spanning over 35 years in the governance of financial and reporting systems both at the operational and strategic levels,  Soosaipillai brings to the table a core discipline in finance, a core competency in Risk Identification, Assessment, and Management at operational levels and Forward Risk Assessment at a strategic level and three decades of experience in senior management in the financial services industry. 
His decade and a half of board-level executive experience span that of several leading specialized leasing companies in the capacity of Finance Director, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Director, whilst his experience as a Non-Executive Director includes the boards of LFC’s, a Systemically Important LCB and Regional Plantation Companies. 
He was briefly engaged by the World Bank as a Short-Term Consultant on a Payables Assessment assignment in the Maldives as part of a wider Public Finance Management project in 2012. 
Prabath Chandrakeerthi is a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lankan Administrative Service, with 23 years of service in the Public Sector, and is the incumbent Commissioner General of the Department of Labour. 
He also holds the Vice Chairmanships of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the National Institute of Labour Studies and is an ex-officio member of the Vocational Training Authority and National Child Protection Authority. 
Chandrakeerthi obtained his bachelor’s degree in arts (1998) from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, a Master’s degree in Economics (2008), the Bachelor of Law from the Open University of Sri Lanka (2014), and Attorney – at- Law from Sri Lanka Law College (2017). He also read for his Doctor of Philosophy (Coastal Resources Management) from the International University of Fundamental Studies in Russia (2016). 
Chandrakeerthi has over two decades of experience as an eminent and experienced professional in the fields of tourism management, and public administration. He also possesses a strong understanding of the field of parliamentary procedures and coast conservation management.