Mr. Rajendra Theagarajah is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Sri Lanka and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Cranfield School of Business, UK.

With a highly successful 36-year career in banking in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka, including 16 years of service as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of three of Sri Lanka’s leading licensed private commercial banks, he has been instrumental in shaping the success of these organizations as well as the sector at large. He has also chaired the Sri Lanka Banks Association, the Asian Banks Association and Sri Lanka Financial Services Bureau Ltd.

Rajendra is also the Chairman of First Capital Holdings PLC and serves on the Boards of EngenuityAI Pvt Ltd., Payable Pvt Ltd, BCAS Pvt Ltd, Siam City Sri Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Carson Cumberbatch PLC and Professional Insurance Corporation Zambia and has served on the boards of Lanka Clear, Colombo Stock Exchange and as the former Chairman of Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow of the Pathfinder Foundation, a leading think tank in Sri Lanka.