{"id":144805,"date":"2024-10-09T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144805"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T22:40:02","slug":"sarath-ganegoda-appointed-new-chairman-of-srilankan-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/09\/sarath-ganegoda-appointed-new-chairman-of-srilankan-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarath Ganegoda appointed new chairman of SriLankan Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sarath Ganegoda has been appointed as the new Chairman of SriLankan Airlines effective from today (09).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a new Board of Directors has also been appointed to Sri Lanka\u2019s national carrier, under the chairmanship of Mr. Ganegoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SriLankan Airlines\u2019 new Board of Directors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>1. Mr Sarath Ganegoda (Chairman)&nbsp;<br>2. Mr Buddhika Hewawasam<br>3. Mr Sugath Rajapakse<br>4. Mr Eranga Rohan Peiris Goonetilleke<br>5. \u2060Mr D. Arandara&nbsp;<br>6. \u2060Mr Ananda Athukorale&nbsp;<br>7. \u2060Mr Lakmal Ratnayake&nbsp;<br>8. \u2060Mr Niranjan Arulpragasam<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prominent business leader, Mr Ganegoda currently serves as the Group Executive Director of Sri Lankan multinational Hayleys PLC and Deputy Chairman of Alumex PLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined the Hayleys Group in 2007 and was appointed to the Group Management Committee in July 2007.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was appointed to the Board of Hayleys PLC in September 2009 and to the Board of Alumex PLC in November 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a Fellow Member of CA Sri Lanka and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants of Australia. He holds an MBA from the Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He held several senior management positions in large private entities in Sri Lanka and overseas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sarath Ganegoda has been appointed as the new Chairman of SriLankan Airlines effective from today (09). Meanwhile, a new Board of Directors has also been appointed to Sri Lanka\u2019s national carrier, under the chairmanship of Mr. Ganegoda. SriLankan Airlines\u2019 new Board of Directors: 1. Mr Sarath Ganegoda (Chairman)&nbsp;2. Mr Buddhika Hewawasam3. Mr Sugath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}