Corporate Profile

Mr Roy England serves as an independent non-executive director, a role he holds with another City based financial institution which he has fulfilled since 1 January 2002. Prior to that, Mr England served as Advisor to the General Manager of the institution, which like Bank of Ceylon (UK) Ltd existed as a London Branch before the subsidiarisation. He is an associate of The Institute of Bankers.

Mr David Swanney has been appointed as a second independent non-executive director. He is a chartered accountant and a retired banking regulator, with practical industry experience as Director, Group Compliance and Group MLRO for a major UK banking group. He is the author of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group's anti-money laundering guidance for the UK financial sector. After moving from the accounting profession, David had a twenty year career at the Bank of England, and latterly the FSA, mostly in banking supervision. His responsibilities included an appointment as Head of Division directly supervising a range of UK banks; having responsibility for the Bank's Enforcement activity against illegal deposit taking; acting as secretary to the Board of Banking Supervision; and running the UK Deposit Protection Board at the time of the BCCI collapse.

In late 2000, David joined the Royal Bank of Scotland Group as Director, Group Compliance. Following a reorganisation of this function in late 2002 he took early retirement, since when he has worked with the British Bankers' Association on money laundering prevention issues. He is also a non-executive director, and audit committee chairman, of the UK subsidiaries of a number of overseas banks. Since January 2006 he has also been a public member of the International Audit and Assurance Standards Board.

Mr. Bandara is also the Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Ceylon (UK) Ltd. He has banking experience over twenty years covering important areas such as corporate banking, treasury management and international operations. He has also served at Bank of Ceylon, London Branch from 2000 to 2003 as a Forex and Money Market Dealer. Mr. Bandara was previously on the boards of Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka PLC and Mireka Capital Land (Pvt) Ltd; two subsidiary/associate companies of Bank of Ceylon. He was an associate lecturer of Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka and taught Credit Management for students studying for Postgraduate Executive Diploma in Bank Management.

Mr Bandara bears a Second Class (Upper) Division degree in Physical Science from University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and holds a Master’s Degree with a Merit Pass in Business Administration from Postgraduate Institute of Management of University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He is also a Fellow of Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka.

Mr Muthukudaarachchi is the Chief Operating Officer and the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Ceylon (UK) Ltd. He is a senior banker with broad range of experience and exposure to various aspects of corporate banking, international banking & retail banking, gained through a career spanning over 20 years in Bank of Ceylon.

He joined Bank of Ceylon in 1990 and commenced his career with retail banking serving in several branches. In his stint in Corporate Branch in the capacity as a Relationship Manager has provided him with a wealth of knowledge and experience in corporate lending and credit administration. Serving at the BOC London branch from 1998 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2006, he obtained wide experience in international banking operations in general and UK financial market in particular.

Mr. Mutukudaarachchi holds a Bachelor of Science (special) Degree in Management from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka in 1986 where he served as an Assistant Lecturer before joining the Bank.