Senior General Manager/Chief Operating Officer, Colombo Dockyard PLC, D.V Abeysinghe, has been appointed as the Managing Director/CEO of the company.
He succeeds Ranil Wijegunawardane, who retired from service on November 8.
Abeysinghe graduated from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in the field of Mechanical Engineering in 1985. Holding a BSc Engineering degree he initially joined Colombo Dockyard Ltd. (CDL) in 1985 as a Trainee Engineer in the Marine Division.
During his tenure as a Ship Repair Engineer, he got qualified with Nondestructive Testing Examination on Ultrasonic level III from Indonesia in 1990. In 1991, he successfully completed a 11-month JICA training on Shipbuilding, Repairing and Maintenance including Naval Architecture at the Overseas Shipbuilding Cooperation Centre, Japan and joined the Shipbuilding Division in CDL as the Designs Engineer (Hull) on return.
Abeysinghe is a Charted Mechanical Engineer of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka since 2002 and a Fellow of Royal Institution of Naval Architectures, UK from 2015. He is also a member of the Institute of Certified Professional Manager, Sri Lanka since 2008.
Ranil Wijegunawardane will take over the responsibility as the new Managing Director/CEO of Dockyard General Engineering Services (Pvt) Ltd., to give leadership to this heavy engineering subsidiary of Colombo Dockyard, with focus on expanding operations locally and in to regional markets.