Mercantile Investments and Finance PLC announced that Mr. Pandithasundara Dinuka Dilhan Perera Acting chairman has been designated as chairman of company with effect from August 25, 2023. Mr. Dinuka Perera was appointed to the Board of Mercantile Investments and Finance PLC in a capacity of Non-Executive Independent Director with effect from 21st February 2020 and served as Acting Chairman since February 2021. He has been the Chief Financial Officer at Millennium IT ESP (Pvt) Ltd. (MIT ESP) since August 2018 to date.

He had previously been employed at Akzo Nobel Paints (Former CIC Paints) for over seven years and when leaving he held the position of General Manager - Finance for Sri Lanka operation. He had also been employed at Ernst & Young Sri Lanka for a period of seven years where he has been one of the few members of the firm to reach the position of Senior Manager in five years of employment, while doing a secondment in Guam office of Ernst & Young LLP, USA. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Management Faculty of University of Colombo, University of Kelaniya and at certain other professional education institutes and colleges in Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Mr. Dinuka Perera holds an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management - Sri Jayewardenapura University and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He is also an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK, a Fellow Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka and a Member of the Chartered Global Management Accountants USA.