Orient Finance announced the appointment of Manohari Abeyesekera as an Independent Non-Executive Director to the Company's Board of Directors, effective from March 26, 2024. Manohari is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant with over 20 years of post-qualification experience in leadership C-suite executive positions in both the private and state sectors in Sri Lanka. Manohari serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Kapruka Holdings PLC.

She completed a three-year term in January 2023 as an Independent Non-Executive Director/Chairperson of the Audit Committee of the National Savings Bank (NSB). Previously, Manohari held multiple leadership roles during her 18-year tenure (2002-2020) with the Hayleys Group. She was associated with Hayleys PLC, the parent company, and served as the Head of Strategic Business Development until May 2019.

In May 2019, she was appointed as the Director of Strategy & Business Development at Fentons Limited, the engineering arm of the Hayleys Group. Manohari also served as a Director of Hayleys Group Services (Pvt) Ltd, the Group's Company Secretarial arm, from 2012 to 2020.