First Capital Holdings PLC, a member of the Janashakthi Group, has appointed Ms. Manjula Mathews as the Deputy Chairperson to its board and Director and CEO Dilshan Wirasekara has been promoted to Managing Director and CEO.
Mathews, a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and an Alumnus of the University of Cambridge (UK), counts over three decades of experience in finance, marketing, and general management both in Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. She formerly served as First Capital’s Managing Director (2007-2014) and subsequently assumed duties as the Group’s Executive Chairperson (2014–2017).
She is currently a Director of Janashakthi Limited, the parent company of the listed entities First Capital Holdings PLC, Janashakthi Insurance PLC, Orient Finance PLC, and others. Wirasekara who has been with First Capital since 2013 is an experienced investment banker with a career spanning over 27 years, comprising diversified expertise in financial services including banking, treasury and investment management, capital market strategy and corporate finance advisory services.
He is an Alumnus of INSEAD having successfully completed his Executive Professional Education at INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France, and an Alumnus of AOTS, Tokyo, Japan.