Richard Ebell

Richard Ebell is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), UK. He also holds a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), UK.

Mr. Ebell has 38 years of experience in diverse roles in finance and operations after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1977. This includes 32 years at Hayleys PLC, where he was Finance Director at the time of his resignation in late 2009, and 2 years at Loadstar (Pvt) Ltd, where he was Chief Financial Officer from mid-2010 to mid-2012.

He is a Past President of CIMA, Sri Lanka Division, and a member of CA Sri Lanka’s Quality Assurance Board. He participated in establishing an Audit Committee Forum in June 2014 and remains involved with that initiative which has gained considerable momentum over the year of its existence. Mr. Ebell also serves on the Boards of Finlays Colombo PLC and Softlogic Holdings PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director and chairs the Audit Committees of both these companies. He previously served in the same capacities on the Boards of Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC and Laugfs Capital Ltd.