Premila Perera

Premila Perera was appointed to the Board of the Company with effect from 1 July 2014 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Premila Perera, formerly a Partner, KPMG in Sri Lanka, also served as the Global Firms Regional Tax Director for ASPAC in 2000/01, as a member of the Global Task force commissioned in 1998, to advise the International Board of KPMG on future directions in determining long-term strategic plans, and faculty of the KPMG International Tax Business School. She also served a period of secondment with the US Firm’s National Tax Office in Washington DC, and was a participant at the KPMG-INSEAD International Banking School programme. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. She served as an Independent Director and Chairperson of the Audit and Related Party Transaction Committees of Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC until October 2017 and as a Non-Executive Director of Holcim (Lanka) Limited until August 2016.