Vipula Gunatilleka

Vipula Gunatilleka General Information

Biography

Mr. Vipula Gunatilleka served as a Director and Chief Corporate Officer at Aitken Spence. He currently serves as the Group Chief Corporate Officer/Director of Aitken Spence Group Ltd., overlooking the BPO, information technology, risk management, audit and compliance activities of Aitken Spence. He counts over 20 years of experience holding senior accounting positions in some of the blue chip companies in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Australia. He started his accounting career at KPMG in Colombo and then worked at Hayleys Group in Sri Lanka for a few years before joining Electronic Data Systems Group in Singapore where he worked as the Finance Director. He also worked for the GE Group in Australia as a Controller for the ANZ region. Prior to joining Aitken Spence, he worked as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Dialog Axiata PLC. He was a key member of the senior management team responsible for restructuring the Dialog Group and implementing many key strategic initiatives to turn around the Dialog Group. He was also the Chief Financial Officer/Acting CEO of the national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines and played a pivotal role during the management transition of the National Carrier from Emirates to the Government of Sri Lanka in 2008. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA), a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK (FCMA) and a Fellow Member of the Certified Public Accountant of Australia (FCPA), holds an MBA from the University of Colombo and a GE Trained Six Sigma. He has been a board member of the CIMA Sri Lanka Board from 2010-2012 and currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the CIMA Sri Lanka Board, Council Member of SLASSCOM and Board Member Sri Lanka Accounting Standards and Monitoring Board.