Lakshman Silva to takeover reins of DFCC Vardhana Bank

Lakshman Silva who was the Chief Operating Officer DFCC Vardhana Bank assumed duties as the CEO from January 1, 2010 while L.G. Perera who served as the Managing Director/CEO of DFCC Vardhana Bank almost from its inception retired from service at the end of December 2009.

Lakshman Silva - Chief Operating Officer DFCC Vardhana Bank

L.G. Perera who is affectionately known in the banking and business circles as Elgee, had completed 40 years of banking service at the time of retiring from DFCC Vardhana Bank. Elgee started his banking career at the tender age of 19 years at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka whilst he was still a university undergraduate following an honors degree in Economics. On completion of his first degree he continued at the Central Bank for some time and moved out to join the DFCC Bank in 1977. Whilst working at DFCC, Elgee completed his post graduate studies in accounting, statistics and business management. He climbed the ladder at DFCC to progressively become its Deputy General Manager -Operations in 1997 and finally headed its lending division as Executive Vice President before taking up the position as the Managing Director/ CEO of DFCC’s commercial banking arm, DFCC Vardhana Bank in 2004.

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