Mr. Wikramanayake is a Chartered Accountant. He has worked with the Bank of Butterfield, a Bermuda-based international bank for 19 years, where he reached the position of Executive Vice-President. During his tenure in Bermuda, he successfully directed the operations of banks and other financial institutions in Bermuda and five other countries including England and Hong Kong. Since returning to Sri Lanka, he has been the Chief Executive Officer of Union Assurance Limited, a leading Insurance Company in Sri Lanka. He served as President of the Insurance Association of Sri Lanka in 2002. He is currently engaged in providing consulting services to the Financial Services, Insurance and ICT Industries. Mr. Wikramanayake currently serves as Director of two listed companies, viz., National Development Bank PLC and Orient Finance PLC. He is currently the Chairman of the NDB Investment Bank and NDB Wealth Management Limited. He also serves on several other Boards of Directors.

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Mr. Mohammad Al Maruf Khan is a fellow member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh. He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, UK and holds post graduation in Investigative and Forensic Accounting from the University of Toronto, Canada. Mr. Khan served two terms as the President of the Chittagong Stock Exchange ( 2012, 2013 – Feb 2014). He successfully spearheaded the demutualization process of the stock exchange. Mr. Khan served as a member in many committees of the stock exchanges including trading and development committee, capital market development committee, budget committee, compliance committee, listing committee, administrative committee etc. Mr. Al Maruf Khan served as a Director to the Board of Directors of Janata Bank Limited. He was the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Janata Bank Ltd. He was the Bangladesh correspondent of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, the Netherlands. He also served as the Chairman of South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE), apex body of 36 Exchanges of SAARC region, during 2013-2014.

Mr. Alam is the former Managing Director of The Industrial Promotion and Development Company of Bangladesh Limited (where International Finance Corporation (IFC), Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) and DEG were shareholders) and the former Chairman of National Housing Finance and Investments Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Dhaka and a Post Graduate qualification in Social Planning for Developing Countries from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has extensive working experience and exposure in foreign counties like England, Riyadh and Bahrain.

Mr. Sinniah was appointed to the Board of Directors of National Development Bank PLC with effect from 28th March 2019.He is a former Managing Director of Citibank and Global Head of FX Corporate Sales and e-FX Solutions. He retired in 2018 after 38 years having started his career at Citibank Colombo, then moving to Citibank Australia, and ending his career based out of London. He served as a director of NDB Capital Holdings Limited for a short period. Mr. Sinniah holds a Master of Applied Finance (Macquarie University, Australia)

Mrs. Zakia Chowdhury is the Chairperson of the Continental Group, one of the pioneers in the shipping business in Bangladesh. Continental Group has expanded into one of the leading business houses in Bangladesh in the last four decades and founded the first private sector dock and logistics centre in the country, and represents several of the leading shipping companies in the world.

Hafiz Choudhury is an international tax consultant and entrepreneur. He works with major multinationals on tax policy and business strategy issues; he also advises governments on tax policy and administration through his consulting firm, The M Group, Inc. (www.mgroupglobal.com.). He has worked in locations as diverse as India, Qatar, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Seychelles, Pakistan, Romania, Mongolia, Latvia and China. His software business builds international tax and trade decision support, modeling and analysis tools (www.reganalytics.com). He serves on the Extractive Industries Taxation Subcommittee and the Transfer Pricing Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee of Taxation Experts, and was the general editor of the UN Transfer Pricing Manual. He has been involved in significant research tasks in international taxation, often working jointly with senior experts such as Dr. Jeffrey Owens (former director the OECD’s tax function), Prof. Richard Bird, Mr. Dave Hartnett (former Chairman, UK HMRC) and Mr. Pascal Lamy (former Director General of WTO). Prior to starting his own business, he was with IBFD, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he held a variety of roles such as head of the Asia-Pacific/Middle East team, director of business development, and GM of the Americas business. In his time there, he moved from the tax consulting and content creation side to roles in product management, sales and business development. He was later IBFD’s nominee to work for Orbitax, a tax software company founded through a combination of assets from IBFD and a private business. He graduated from London University with a Masters degree in International Relations, and joined HM Board of Inland Revenue in the UK (now HMRC), where he received his professional tax training. He is currently based in Washington D.C.