Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala’s knowledge and experience speaks for itself. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Society of Management Accountants in Sri Lanka, and a fellow of the Institute of Management Accountants in the UK. He has served as both Chairman and Managing Director of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, and has also served as the Chairman of People’s Bank, People’s Merchant Bank and other state corporations. He has also been an Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, and President of the South Asian Federation of Accountants.
Currently, he is President of the Society of Certified Management Accountants in Sri Lanka and a Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Amitha Gooneratne is a hugely respected and experienced businessman. He has held several senior positions at the Commercial Bank of Ceylon, including serving as Managing Director, and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in both the UK and Sri Lanka. He was the Founder Chairman of the Financial Ombudsman Sri Lanka, sat on the Board of SriLankan Airlines and is currently Managing Director of the Commercial Development Company, Vice-Chairman of the Sri Lanka Banks Association, and Chairman of Commercial Insurance Brokers.
Mr Nikhil Deep Mathur, age 58 years, is an Executive Director (Retail Transformation) with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, and has 32 years experience with India’s largest enterprise Oil Refiner and Marketeer ‘Indian Oil Corporation Ltd’ (2023 Turnover USD 105 Bn Fortune 94) in its Petroleum downstream operations of Sales, Marketing, Construction & Maintenance of facilities for consumer products thru Retail Outlets pumps (B2C) as well as Industry (B2B) in India.
He has handled tankage projects for bulk storage facilities; construction of petrol pumps; construction of railway loco fuelling facilities for 5 years.
He has managed sales and maintenance of retail outlets and bulk facilities of company and customers as a sales person for 27 yrs in various capacities in the hierarchy and has led sales teams across India managing petroleum outlet network in urban, highway & rural markets, Development of new outlets; Govt coordination for maintenance of essential POL services etc. He has also been positioned at Marketing Head Office in Retail Sales vertical for 6 years, involved in policy, strategic projects, Int’l market entry projects.
Mr Mathur is a Civil Engineering graduate from the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani (Rajasthan, India). He further completed his Executive Int’l MBA from the prestigious Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon with an International Module at ESCP-EAP at its Paris and Berlin campuses.
Mr Nikhil Deep Mathur is currently posted as Executive Director (Retail Transformation) at Indian Oil Corporation’s Marketing Head Office at Mumbai, in-charge of Retail Strategy including transitioning into renewable energy resources for consumers like CNG, EV Charging, battery swapping.
Mr Mathur has been nominated to the board of directors of Lanka IOC, a listed company in Sri Lanka w.e.f. 21st March 2024 by the parent company Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
“ Mr. R V N Vishweshwar is working with Indian Oil Corporation for the last 31 years and holding the position of Executive Director (Corporate Finance & Treasury) at Corporate Office, New Delhi. He has completed B.Com(Hons) and Bachelor of Law from Delhi University. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. During the span of 31 years of service, he has handled various key positions at different levels in IOCL.
He began his career at Digboi Refinery, Assam wherein he handled consolidation of accounts, banking, insurance, payroll, revenue/capital payments. He was actively involved in data and system interface for development of financial management system in Ingres RDBMS, during migration to Oracle and was also the key coordinator for SAP implementation.
His stint at Corporate Treasury for about 5 years he covered Fx transactions – spot + derivatives(plain vanilla Forwards/Options/Swaps and Range forwards), managed overall cash flow, monitoring for the purposes of risk management, arrangement of funds – Fx as well as domestic.
While posted at Refineries Headquarters he oversaw activities of Trusts related to Provident Fund, Pension, Gratuity, Post Retirement Medical Benefit etc. catering to the retirement benefits of employees and also handed payroll.
He was the Team Lead for SAP – FICO group at Indian Oil. He oversaw migration towards GST implementation, New GL activation, CRM and implementation, facilitating SAP interface for IOC foray into CGD business. He also oversaw SAP-HR and SAP-MM module during his tenure.
During his stint with Marketing Division at Mumbai, he was overseeing Taxation (Direct as well as Indirect), spearheading the digital initiatives and was heading the Finance function of Marketing Division before moving to his next role as Executive Director (Corporate Finance & Treasury) at Corporate Office, New Delhi.
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