Mrs, Manjula Mathews has been appointed as Executive Chairperson and Mr. Dinesh Schaffter as Managing Director of First Capital Holdings PLC with effect from October 2, 2014. Further Mr. Chandana L. de Silva has been appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company with effect from October 2, 2014. Mr. Chandana de Silva has held several senior management positions including that of Chief Financial Officer for Level (3) Communications in Europe a NASDAQ quoted company and Head of Financial PJanning for British Telecommunications PLC.