Board of Directors

Danushka has over 15 years  experience in both domestic and international capital markets . Prior to joining NLE, he was the CEO at Softlogic Capital Markets (under Softlogic Capital PLC) and formed Softlogic Groups' Unit Trust company Softlogic Invest. He has also been the COO & Head of Research at Softlogic Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd. Danushka also served as the Sri Lankan sector President for Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - UK (ACCA).

Since 2006 to date, Danushka has been marketing Sri Lanka in overseas markets, conducting multiple investment roadshows, working closely with top corporates and state institutions to successfully attract foreign portfolio investments to both the listed and unlisted entities. He commenced his career in Accounts and Business Analysis at Shadowline (a MAS Holdings company) in 2002, then moved to capital markets in 2003. Danushka had covered global equities while focusing on Hong Kong Property and Conglomerate sector during his tenor at Amba Research, while most of the years were spent covering Sri Lankan equities, macro-economy and project/deal driven work on both the listed and private equity space during his tenor at Asia Capital/Asia Securities. Given the broad sectoral coverage he is a generalist who believes there is more to equity and macro analysis than taking only a structured look at the financials, forecasts and mathematical models. And from 2011 onwards, he took up more operational and strategic responsibilities in setting up new organizations and running them.

Ralph has over 32 years of experience in the stockbroking industry. He started his stockbroking career as an Executive Stockbroker at Forbes and Walker Stockbrokers (Pvt) Ltd and thereafter as Manager Foreign Sales at Asia Securities (Pvt) Ltd, a stockbroking company owned by Asia Capital Ltd. Prior to joining Nation Lanka Equities, Ralph was the Chief Executive Officer of TKS Securities (Pvt) Ltd, a stockbroking company owned by Malaysian Investors offering Stock Broking, Equity Research and Corporate Advisory Services.  

Ralph was the Director / Chief Executive Officer of Investor Access Asia (Pvt) Ltd a company dedicated to facilitating financial trading through technology. In June 2003, the company pioneered on-line financial trading in Sri Lanka through the introduction of CDAX online trading software to the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) registered brokerage houses, making history in Sri Lankan financial sector with a real-time direct access on-line trading system.