Tokyo Cement appoints 2 directors to board

Averil Anne Ludowyke	Mano Sekaram

Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC announced the appointment of Mano Sekaram and Averil Anne Ludowyke as Independent Non-Executive Directors to its board.

Sekaram is a renowned tech entrepreneur and investor in the Sri Lankan IT industry, with over 30 years of experience in the corporate arena. 

He is Founder and Chairman of 99x Technology Sri Lanka and Asia and Board Member of 99x Investment AS Norway, an award-winning digital product engineering company serving the European markets. 
He was featured on the prestigious LMD100 Club for both 2019 and 2020, which highlights the A-list of Sri Lankan businesspeople driving the nation’s growth. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Computer Society at National Best Quality Software Awards 2014, for his vast contributions to the ICT industry.
In furthering IT education and aligning the university curricula to industry needs, Sekaram has contributed as a Board Member of both the University of Jaffna and University of Colombo, School of Computing. He is a member of the University Grants Commission Consultative Committee for Computer Science. In addition, Sekaram sits on the board of the Sri Lanka Technological Campus and is also a past Chairman of the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies, the apex body of the Sri Lankan IT/BPM sector. In August 2023, Sekaram was appointed as Honorary Consul General for Norway in Sri Lanka.

Ludowyke, FCA (CA Sri Lanka), FCMA (UK), counts over 26 years of experience at Ernst & Young and has served as a Partner from 2011 to 2022. She was lead Audit Partner at M/S Ernst & Young, of several groups of companies and she launched and led forensics and integrity services of the firm. Her clients included banks and finance companies and companies engaged in retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, construction, real estate, shipping and logistics, leisure, plantations and development.

She also counts for over 13 years of senior level experience in finance and accounting in the manufacturing sector and in a relief and development organisation. 

She is also an Independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Seylan Bank PLC, Ceylinco Life Insurance Ltd and Bogala Graphite PLC. Ludowyke has been a resource person for the Director Certification Programme of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors and the Certificate Course on Forensic Auditing of CA Sri Lanka. 

She has also conducted several public seminars with the CIMA, Public Enterprise Development Ministry, National Chamber of Commerce, ACCA, AAT, CMA and has been a panellist/presenter at the ACAMS Regional Conference of the Indian Subcontinent, Annual Conference of the Institute of Internal Auditors and at programmes conducted by the University of Kelaniya.

With these appointments, the board of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC comprises of Chairman Dr. Harsha Cabral PC, Managing Director S.R. Gnanam, Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, A.D.B. Talwatte, Ravi Dias, Shuichi Nakamoto, W.C. Fernando, Praveen Gnanam, A.A. Ludowyke and Mano Sekaram.