Priyantha Abeygunawardana

Director & General Manager at Samson International PLC

Mr. Priyantha Abeygunawardana is a triple-qualified Accountant holding the fellowship of CA, CIMA, ACCA and also an Attorney–at-Law. He obtained his LLB degree from the Open University of Sri Lanka and took his oaths as an Attorney-at-Law in 2004, having passed the requisite examinations held by the Sri Lanka Law College.

He also holds two Master’s degrees in two different fields, namely, MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura specializing in Finance, and LLM from University of Colombo specializing in Company Law, Labour Law and Banking Law.

He is also member of Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.

Previously he was at Ford, Rhodes, Thornton & Company, Hayley’s, Abans and lastly at Richard Piers Exports Plc, where he worked as General Manager for six years. With regard to his sports carrier, he toured Malaysia and Thailand with the Mercantile Hockey Association team (Combined Companies) as vice-captain in 1992. He also toured India with the Sri Lanka Schools’ Hockey team as vice-captain in 1979. He played in the CR & FC Hockey team from 1978 to 1988 and captained the CR & FC in 1986. He played Hockey and Football for Nalanda College for several years. Under his captaincy in 1979, Nalanda College Hockey team emerged champions in the under 19 All-Island inter school tournament.