Vallibel Finance PLC to announced the appointment of Kapila Dodamgoda as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the company, with effect from September 5, 2023. Dodamgoda was Finance Director for MAS lnvestments, the non-apparel investment arm of MAS Group. Before taking on this role, he served as General Manager of Finance - Overseas Operations in Madagascar, Vietnam and India for MAS Active (Private) Limited and Financial Controller for Shadowline (Private) Limited.

He was also a Senior Manager in Trade Finance and Corporate Finance (Project Monitoring) at Vanik Incorporation Limited and an Engineer at Hayleys Electronics (Private) Limited. He is Regional Director of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants - Australia and New Zealand (ICMA-ANZ) Sri Lanka and Founder/Managing Director of the Academy of Finance (Private) Limited. The Academy of Finance has pioneered the launching of the ICMA-ANZ, Chartered Institute of Securities and lnvestments (CISI-UK), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA-USA) and Asia e University educational programmes in Sri Lanka under his leadership and guidance.

He was also a Director of the National Engineering Research and Development Centre (NERD) from 2020 to 2022. Dodamgoda holds a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Colombo and a Bachelor's in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. He is a Fellow Member of ICMA-ANZ and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA-UK).

He holds Memberships with the CISI-UK, Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM-UK), Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and Institute of Engineers (Sri Lanka). He has been a key resource person for finance in educational programmes conducted by a number of professional accounting and finance bodies, universities and corporations.