Corporate Profile

Mrs. Prasanthi Rathnayake was appointed a Deputy General Manager of the Bank in August 2020 and assumed duties as Chief Risk Officer and currently serves as Chief Compliance Officer / Deputy General Manager. She has gained experience in all aspects of commercial banking with both local and international exposure during her career spanning over 25 years.

Prior to her appointment as a Deputy General Manager, after being promoted as an Assistant General Manager in April 2015, she held key positions within the Bank as AGM (Corporate Credit) and AGM (Western Province North). During her tenure as AGM (Corporate Credit) she served as the Secretary to the Bank’s Credit Committee for over three years.

She began her career as a management trainee in 1997. During this period, she gained experience in branch banking and in handling both retail and corporate credit portfolios. She gained international exposure during her service at Chennai Branch.

Mrs. Rathnayake was one of the founder staff members of the Risk Management Division, established in 2009. She was instrumental in developing risk management policies as well as risk management tools for the bank as per regulatory guidelines, in her over five years of service to the Risk Division.

She is a graduate of the University of Ruhuna with a Bachelor of Sciences (Special) degree in Agriculture and also holds a MBA from the Open University of Sri Lanka. She is an Associate Member of Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka and holds a Postgraduate Executive Diploma in Bank Management from the same institution and International Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance from the International Compliance Association (ICAUK).