Stanley Vincent Wanigasekera, B.Com (London), F.C.A. (UK), F.C.A (Sri Lanka) was appointed as Chairman of Central Finance Company PLC in the year 2006 consequent to the retirement of Chandra Wijenaike,the Founder Director of the Company. He has been a member of the Board since 1st February 1983. He has served as the Executive Chairman of Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC and was a Director of Hatton National Bank PLC, Richard Peiris & Company PLC, Associated Motorways PLC and Brown & Company PLC. He currently serves on the Board of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC and is the Chairman of Central Industries PLC. He has over 53 years of finance and management experience in Sri Lanka.

Eranjith Wijenaike is the Managing Director of Central Finance Company PLC and has been a Member on the Board since 1st April 1983. He is the Deputy Chairman of Nations Trust Bank PLC as well as a director of several companies within and outside the Group including Tea Smallholder Factories PLC and Central Industries PLC. He has over 28 years experience and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce and a Postgraduate Diploma in Finance and Management. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management (UK). 

Shamil Peiris is the Director Finance of Central Finance Company PLC and has been a Member on the Board since 1st April 1983. He serves on the Boards of many companies within the Group and outside. He possesses over 32 years of post qualification management experience. He is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Credit Management & Society of Certified Management Accountants -Sri Lanka, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, British Institute of Management and Association of Corporate Treasurers-UK.

Udaya Kadurugamuwa is the Precedent Partner of F.J. & G. De Saram, Attorneys- at-Law. He is also a director of Corporate Services (Private) Limited, an associate company of F.J.& De Saram, which acts as secretaries to the Company. U.L. Kadurugamuwa has more than 40 years of experience as a corporate lawyer.

Ravi Rambukwelle is the Director Marketing and Operations of Central Finance Company PLC and was appointed to the Board on 20th February 2002.He has over 30 years of management experience, both locally and internationally. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Peradeniya, a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK and a Diploma in Commerce from the Institute of Commerce UK. He serves as a Director in several companies within the Group.

A Gunaratne has been functioning as Director/CEO of CF Venture Fund Ltd. since July 2001. He has extensively been involved in the Finance Services Sector, where he held several key positions in other organizations such as the post of a Controller at Union Bank of Colombo Ltd. and Director Financial Services at Ernst & Young prior to joining CF Venture Fund Ltd.Arjuna Gunaratne, Director Group Co-ordination of the Company, has been a member on the Board since 20th February 2002. He oversees the functions of Strategic Planning and Risk Management of the Company. He also serves on Boards of Nations Trust Bank PLC and Union Assurance PLC. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK.

Tissa Bandaranayake, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, was appointed to the Board on 27th May 2009.He was in public practice with Ernst & Young for 27 years since 1982.He was a Senior Partner managing a large portfolio of clients both local and multinational in various industries. He was recently appointed as the First Chairman of the newly created Quality Assurance Board of Sri Lanka. He is a Director of DFCC Bank, Nawaloka Hospitals PLC and Samson International PLC and also works in the capacity of Advisor/Consultant of the Audit Committee of DFCC Vardhana Bank and of the Board of Directors of Noritake Lanka Porcelain (Pvt) Ltd.

Kumar Jayasuriya, Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Finlays Colombo PLC was appointed to the Board with effect from 01st July 2011 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. A Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK(FCMA) and the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, UK (FCCA), he is the immediate past Chairman of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon and serves as the Chairman of the Mercantile Services Provident Society and a Director of the Employees Trust Fund. Kumar Jayasuriya is a member of the Board of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants – Sri Lanka Division, and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board and also serves on the Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

Sunil Wickramasinghe is the Chairman of Milco (Pvt) Limited. He possesses 28 years of experience at Nestlé, holding various positions in the fields of Technical,Sales, Marketing and General Management in Sri Lanka and abroad. Served as an Executive Director at Nestlé Sri Lanka,prior to leaving for Australia in 2005 to take up appointment as Sales Director for Nestlé Pacific Islands and later on General Manager – Nestlé Papua New Guinea. He has wide exposure to sales and marketing especially in emerging markets such as India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Malaysia.He was appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-executive Director with effect from 01st July 2011.

Prasanna de Silva was appointed to the Board with effect from 01st July 2011 as an Executive Director. Having joined the Company as a Credit Executive in 1991 De Silva headed the Credit Division of the Company as General Manager Credit at the time of appointment to the Board. He served as the Chairman of the Leasing Association of Sri Lanka from 2007–2009. At present he is an advisor to the Association. He also serves as a Member of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka. Prasanna de Silva is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants(UK) and has also completed all examinations of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) programme.