NDB Bank celebrated its 40th anniversary, along with the Bank’s past Chairmen, past CEOs, Bank’s current Chairman Kavan Ratnayake, the Bank’s Group CEO Dimantha Seneviratne and the Senior Management team and staff at the Bank’s Head Office in Nawam Mawatha last week.
The celebrations began with a religious ceremony. An appreciation of the past Chairmen and CEOs of the Bank, who contributed to the success of the Bank’s journey of 40 years, took place.
Among them were NDB’s former Chairmen Dr. Nimal Sanderatne (1994-1998), Hemaka Amarasuriya (2011-2013), Sunil Wijesinha (2013-2015), N. G. Wickremeratne (2015-2016) and Ananda Atukorala (2016-2019) as well as the Bank’s former CEOs Ranjit Fernando (1989-2001), Eran Wickramaratne (2008-2010), Russell de Mel (2010-2013) and Rajendra Theagarajah (2013-2016). Meanwhile, longstanding customers of NDB were also present to celebrate the Bank’s journey of four decades.
NDB also launched their 40th anniversary external campaign in the print and electronic media. An internal staff campaign is also being conducted this month.
A town-storming campaign will be conducted with the Bank’s teams visiting a number of towns with gifts and fun activities during the coming weeks.
Established in 1979 as the National Development Bank of Sri Lanka, the National Development Bank PLC as known today has grown to become a fully-fledged financial services conglomerate operating around the island with a significant digital footprint and a network of over 150 ATM/CRMs and a total of 111 branches.