Deshabandu Tilak de Zoysa
Deshabandu Tilak de Zoysa, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, UK, the Deputy Chairman/ Managing Director from 1993 has served as a Member of the Board since 1980. Mr. de Zoysa is a Member of the Monetary Board (of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka), Chairman of Carson Cumberbatch PLC and is a Non-Executive Director of several public quoted companies which include John Keells PLC, Taj Lanka Hotels Limited, Lanka Walltiles PLC and Nawaloka Hospitals PLC. He is the Chairman of HelpAge Sri Lanka and a Past Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, National
Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka, Plastics & Rubber Institute and several Trade Organisations, Bilateral Business Councils and Friendship Societies. Mr. de Zoysa is the Honorary Consul for Croatia in Sri Lanka since 1999 and is a recipient of "The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon"from the Emperor of Japan.

J B L de Silva
Mr. de Silva who is the Chairman of Eastern Merchants Limited, has served on the Board since 1989. A lawyer by profession he comes with substantial experience in the Rubber Trade and is the immediate past Chairman of the Colombo Rubber Traders' Association. He also serves on the Board of Associated Electrical Corporation PLC, Ceylon Theatres Limited and a host of other nonlisted companies.

Ranjan de Silva

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - UK, Mr. de Silva has served on the Board since 1995 and was appointed Deputy Managing Director - Motor in June 2005. He counts over 25 years of experience in Finance, Marketing and Operational Management. He is the Chairman, Imports Section of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the Chairman of the Transport & Automobile Committee of the National Chamber of Commerce and the Immediate Past Chairman of the
Ceylon Motor Traders’ Association.

Ananda Caldera

Mr. Caldera has been associated with the Company for the last 21 years and has been a Director since 1996. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director - Manufacturing in June 2005. A professionally qualified Engineer, he holds an MBA in Management of Technology and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Materials - UK and the Plastics and Rubber Institute of Sri Lanka. He is the President of the Tyre Retreaders’ Association and also the President of the Plastics & Rubber Institute in Sri Lanka. Mr. Caldera serves in several Advisory Committees representing the Rubber Products Manufacturing sector and is a Member of the Industry Consultative Committee of the University of Moratuwa.

Dinesh de Zoysa

Appointed to the Board in February 2002,Mr. de Zoysa holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the Managing Director of Associated Electrical Corporation PLC and serves on the Board of several non-listed Financial/Insurance services and HR Consultancy companies.

A R Peiris

Mr. Peiris holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya and is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - UK. He was appointed to the Board of Associated Motorways PLC, as a nominee Director of National Development Bank in 1987 and subsequently appointed as an Independent Director in May 2002. He has been functioning as the Chairman of the Board Audit Committee from 2001 to-date. He served the Petroleum Corporation for 10 years in Technical, Planning & Finance Divisions and at the time he left the Corporation in 1979 was Head of the Refinery Finance Division. Thereafter, he joined National Development Bank where he held several senior positions for 24 years. Mr. Peiris has held Directorships in several reputed public listed and unlisted companies. He is presently attached to a reputed public listed company of a large group as an Executive Director and holds Directorships in several public listed and unlisted companies within
the Group.

Ashan de Zoysa


Mr. de Zoysa holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and was appointed as Director/Group General Manager in June 2005. Prior to joining AMW he worked in the fields of IT and Derivatives/Commodity Trading in Australia. Mr. de Zoysa serves on the Board of Associated Electrical Corporation PLC.

Susantha Ratnayake

Mr. Ratnayake was appointed to the Board on 7th August 2006 and is the Chairman of
John Keells Holdings PLC. He is a Council Member of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon and is a Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on various clusters of the National Council for Economic Development.

K Kanag-Isvaran PC


Appointed to the Board in 2007, Mr. Kanag-Isvaran is a Graduate in Law from the University of London, a Barrister Lincoln’s Inn (1964) and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (1966), with an extensive practice on the civil side in both the original and appellate courts and specialises in several areas of law including, Corporate Law,Intellectual Property Law, Banking and Finance, Shipping and Admiralty, Telecommunication, I.T.,and International Commercial Arbitration.

A member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka from 1994, he Chaired the Committee which drafted the ‘Mutual Assistance in Civil and Commercial Matters Act’ No. 39 of 2000 and the ‘Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgment Act’ awaiting enactment.He led the team of Legal Experts who drafted the Arbitration Act No. 11 of 1995. He also drafted the current ‘High Court (Admiralty Jurisdiction) Rules 1991’, at the invitation of the then Law Commission.He was the Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Intellectual Property Law, and the Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Company Law, which drafted
repectively the ‘Intellectual Property Act No.36 of 2003 and the Companies Act No. 07 of 2007’.

He is a Member of the Council of Management of the ‘Institute for the Development of Commercial Law and Practice’ (ICLP) and a Director of the ICLP ‘Arbitration Centre’ and a Lecturer and Examiner for the Diploma Course in Arbitration conducted by the Centre.He was a Visiting Lecturer to the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and the Sri Lanka Law College, and is currently lecturing on Advanced Company Law and Arbitration for the LLM Course at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. A Member of the Faculty Board at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombofrom 1990, he is now, since 2005, a Member of the Council of the University of Colombo.He holds several other positions of responsibility.

He has written extensively and lectured locally and abroad on several subjects, touching his area of practice and is a co-editor of ‘Arbitration Law in Sri Lanka’.

Ms. Priyanthi Pieris

Mrs. Priyanthi Pieris was appointed to the Board w.e.f. 1st April 2007. Mrs. Pieris is a Corporate lawyer with over 25 years experience. Mrs. Pieris is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales. At present she is in private practise and is a Consultant to the Colombo Stock Exchange on Securities and Law related matters. She serves as a Member of the Committees on Take-Overs & Mergers Code and Corporate Governance. She is a Director of several financial services companies.

Mr. Lalith de Alwis


Mr. de Alwis was appointed to the Board on 1st January 2008 as the Finance Director. Mr. de Alwis is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.Before joining AMW, Mr. de Alwis worked for a number of years in the UK. He was the Finance Director of Global Education Management Systems Limited in the UK, and prior to that worked for a UK investment fund. Before going overseas, Mr. de Alwis was the CEO of LOLC, the first leasing company in Sri Lanka and later was the CEO of Ceylease Financial Services Limited. He has also worked as a Financial Consultant to the World Bank in Pakistan and to the governments of the Netherlands and Jamaica.