HNB Assurance PLC (HNBA) announced the appointment of Ashoka Goonesekere as a Non-Executive Independent Director recently. Accordingly, the Board of Directors of HNBA comprises of Rose Cooray, Siromi Wickramasinghe, Dr. Sivakumar Selliah, Dilshan Rodrigo, Ravi Abeysuriya, Damien Fernando, Stuart Chapman, Dr. Prasad Samarasinghe and Ashoka Goonesekere.
With over 36 years of experience in the Banking Sector, Goonesekere has overlooked several functions ranging from Financial Reporting, Financial Management, Taxation, Financial Operations and Risk Management. Goonesekere has been in the Corporate Management of Hatton National Bank PLC as the Chief Financial Officer and in DFCC Bank PLC as the Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer and the Senior Vice President Integrated Risk Management/Chief Risk Officer.
Goonesekere has served in several Boards including Acuity Partners (Pvt) Ltd, Acuity Stock Brokers (Pvt) Ltd, Acuity Securities Ltd and of Sithma Development Ltd as well as the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board and in addition, he has Chaired and served in several Board Sub Committees.
HNB Assurance PLC (HNBA) is one of the fastest growing Insurance Companies in Sri Lanka with a network of 63 branches. HNBA is a Life Insurance company with a rating of A+ (lka) by Fitch Ratings Lanka for ‘National Insurer Financial Strength Rating’.
