Udapussellawa Plantations Plc announced that the appointment of Mr. Nanayakkara Hettiarachchige Gihan Sudharshana Jayasinghe (who functioned as a non-executive director), as managing director of the company with effect from September 3, 2018. Nanayakkara Hettiarachchige Gihan Sudharshana Jayasinghe has been serving on the board of Hapugastenne plantations PLC and Udapussellawa Plantations Plc since April 2017. He has been appointed deputy chariman of Finlays Colombo Limited and will take over from Mr. H. A. S. Crawford as county head –finlays Sri Lanka with effect from January 1, 2019. He is also the group director of finlays Colombo Limited overseeing the company’s value added tea-processing, logistics & export operations. Mr. Jayasinghe joined Finlays in February 2006, as the chief executive officer of Finlay Cold Stroage (Pvt) Limited and was appointed director of that subsidiary in February 2008. He was appointed an executive director of Finlays Colombo limited in November 2014, and subsequently as Managing director in May 2018.