LB Finance Leadership Team

Mr. Ashane Jayasekara

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Skills and experience

Ashane is the Deputy Managing Partner of BDO in Sri Lanka & the Managing Partner for BDO in the Maldives. He heads the Risk, Cyber Security and Fraud & Forensics Service Practice in the firm. As the IT Director and Chief Privacy Officer, he oversees the IS security strategy and privacy function in the Firm.

He joined BDO in 2009 as a Director and was made a Partner in 2010. He has over 17 years of experience in overseeing corporate governance reviews, risk assessments and compliance audits in private, publicly listed, multinational and government enterprises across a range of sectors, including retail, banking, manufacturing, logistics, airlines, hotel and healthcare. He has also served as the lead client service professional, fraud & forensic investigations and has prepared Forensic Audit reports for cases ranging from arbitration hearings to Magistrates and High Court cases.

He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and the British Computer Society (UK). He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems from the London Metropolitan University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern Queensland. Ashane is a Certified Internal Auditor [IIA-USA], a Certified Financial Services Auditor [IIA-USA] and a Certified Information’s Systems Auditor [ISACA-USA].

At CA Sri Lanka, he currently serves as a Member of the Governing Council, Corporate Governance Committee, Forensic Accounting Faculty and a Board Member of the Board of Management of the School of Accounting & Business. Ashane is a visiting faculty member at leading state and private sector universities and has played a pioneering role in the introduction and delivery of Fraud & Forensic Accounting as a subject in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Sri Lanka.

Appointed to the Board

On 30th October 2017

Membership of Board Sub-committees

Chairman – Nominations Committee, Chairman – Integrated Risk Committee, Member – Audit Committee

Current appointments

Member of the Governing Council – Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, Member of Council – Open University of Sri Lanka, Director Academic Affairs & Research – Information Systems Audit & Control Association – Sri Lanka

Former appointments

Director – BDO Consultants (Pvt) Ltd, Director – BDO BPO Services (Pvt) Ltd, Director – BT Communications Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Chairman – Information Technology Faculty – CA Sri Lanka, President / Governor – Institute of Internal Auditors – Sri Lanka