Chairman/Managing Director of Asia Capital PLC - Mr. Manohan Nanayakkara sits on the boards of all associate and subsidiary companies of Asia Capital PLC. Mr. Nanayakkara was the former Chief Operating Officer/Director of Asian Hotels and Properties Limited, which was known popularly as Crescat, as well as the former General Manager of the Bureau of Infrastructure Investment (BII). He has acted as the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of CF Venture Fund and is a Director of Pradana Limited, an investment management company.
Among Mr. Nanayakkara's exceptional career highlights has been in the position of a project specialist who designed and managed the Capital Market Project of USAID which aided the privatisation and establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) and the development of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE).
Mr. Nanayakkara holds the following academic qualifications and experience;
- Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants (FCMA)
- Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) from James Maddison University of Virginia, USA
- Masters in Applied Finance (MAF) and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia.