HNB Assurance PLC has announced the appointment of Rimoe Saldin as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director to its Board with effect from February 19. Rimoe Saldin is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and an Associate of Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in UK and a Certified Management Accountant, Australia.

He is an alumni of the Asian Institute of Management Manila. He has over 30 years of top management level experience in the areas of Finance, Human Resource Development, General Management and Operations as well as Chief Executive Officer. He is currently employed as Director of Paints & General Industries Limited and Director/Chief Executive Officer of Polypak Secco Limited.

He is also the Chairman of Chemanex PLC and serves as a Director of CIC Holdings PLC. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Akzo Nobel Paints Lanka (Private) Limited, Link Natural Products (Private) Limited, CIC Agri Businesses (Pvt) Ltd. and a number of companies in the CIC Group. Rimoe is the Chairman of CISCO Speciality Packaging (Private) Limited.

He also serves in the Board of Directors of Hatton National Bank Plc and also is Chairman of Sithma Development (Private) Limited and serves as a Trustee of the HNB Sustainability Foundation. Previously Saldin served as the Commercial Director and Group Finance Director of CIC Holdings PLC for the period 1995-2005. He was the Country Controller & Group Finance Director for Shell Sri Lanka for the period 2005-2010 and also the Group Chief Operating Officer, Browns Group of Companies PLC and the Managing Director of Browns Investments PLC from 2010-2014.