
Chandula Abeywickrema
Chandula Abeywickrema is the Founder and Chairman of the Lanka Impact Investing Network (Private) Ltd (LIIN) which Sri Lanka's first ever impact investment fund. LIIN focuses on investing in existing and and emerging social enterprises and promoting entrepreneurship across the country . An accomplished and much respected senior commercial banker with lead expertise and experience in retail and development banking with proven track record of over 30 years, Chandula is also recognized inAsia as an expert in financial inclusion. Chandula spear headed the retail and development banking strategy as the deputy general manger of Hatton National Bank (HNB), and the strategic direction of HNB’s SME portfolio and Microfinance portfolio came under his direct accountability. Under his leadership, the bank was awarded the "Best Retail Bank" award from Asian Money for 7 consecutively years until 2013 when he retired from the bank after 25 years of service . He has also served as the Managing Director /CEO of CCC SOLUTIONS , the project management arm of Ceylon Chamber of Commerce from 2014 to 2015 and as the Consultant Strategy and Marketing for National Savings Bank (NSB) from 2016 to 2017. Chandula is the current Chairman of the Banking With the poor Network (BWTP) , Asia’s Largest Micro Finance Network and was also appointed recently by the Asian Bankers Association (ABA) as the Advisor on Financial Inclusion to ABA. He serves on a the number of boards of both local and international financial institutions . He is also the Chairman of CSR SRI LANKA the national Apex body for corporate social responsibility representing the largest number of private sector corporates.
Contributed Projects (09)
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ContributionEcofeel Foods
Eco Feel Foods is a social enterprise started by Ravinath Samaraweera in Matale (Kandy District). It was established to promote organic farming and support the livelihood of rural farmers....
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ContributionAkalanka Products
Lalith Manjula Silva is a social entrepreneur from Panadura. Initially he started his products as a solution for food wastage. As his daily work routine, when he traveled around...
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ContributionMihikasun Nirmana
Sunethra Manika is from Dambadaniya. She produces baskets from coconut leaves. She finds raw materials from her area. Sunethra presently sells her baskets to some of the retailers in...
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ContributionAloe Vera Village
Susantha Kumara is an Aloe Vera farmer from Tissamaharama. He plans to build an Aloe Vera Village. Currently, he supplies his harvest to companies which make various aloe vera...
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ContributionThuru Viyana
As the name suggests Thuru Viyana aims to make tree planting and forest farming easier in the country. Under the leadership of its founder Jayantha Balasinghe, Thuru Viyana sells...