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Ms. Shemara Wikramanayake is a Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Macquarie Capital Europe Ltd., Macquarie Investment Management Ltd. and Macquarie Investment Management Global Ltd., and a Chief Executive Officer, MD & Executive Director at Macquarie Group Ltd. She is on the Board of Directors at Macquarie Bank and Macquarie Group Ltd. Ms. Wikramanayake joined Macquarie in 1987 and worked in Macquarie Capital for 20 years before being appointed Head of Macquarie Asset Management in 2008. As Head of the Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets business in New York for four years from 2004, she led the establishment of Macquarie’s infrastructure funds in the US and Canada. Before that, Ms. Wikramanayake led Macquarie Capital’s prudential team for four years, reviewing all transactions in which the business took a principal position. She also established and led Macquarie’s corporate advisory offices in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Drayton Sarath Palitha Wikramanayake currently works at NDB Capital Ltd., as Chairman, NDB Zephyr Partners Ltd., as Chairman, NDB Capital Holdings Plc, as Director, and various other companies.
Mr. Wikramanayake also formerly worked at Union Assurance Plc, as Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to 2003, Greenwich Lanka Pvt Ltd., as Chairman, Pan Asia Banking Corp.
Plc, as Director, and various other companies.
Mr. Wikramanayake received his graduate degree from Waikato University.

Arittha R.
Wikramanayake is the founder of Nithya Partners.
Currently, he holds multiple positions including Independent Non-Executive Director at hSenid Business Solutions Plc, Member at Sri Lanka Accounting & Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, Member at Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka, and Partner at Heritage Partners (Pvt) Ltd.
Previously, he served as Director General at Securities & Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka.
Dr. Wikramanayake has a graduate degree from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a graduate degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.
He also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Colombo and a graduate degree from Fletcher School of Law.