Entrepreneur · Chairman · Business Leader
Chairman & Managing Director of B&N Group of Companies, Ceylon Travelex Group of Companies & Ceylon LUXE Escapes.
DBA (USA) · MBA · C Mgr · FCIM · FCMI · MIPA · AFA
Founded ventures
Perspective
A strategic textiles professional with extensive experience in the apparel sector, and a deep appreciation for how every part of an organisation must work together.
An experienced communicator and confident negotiator, building relationships internally and externally through commercial awareness, judgement and management capability.
Having operated at senior level for more than twenty years, Srimal works in team environments to deliver success against clearly defined objectives.
Ventures
Textiles · Apparel · Sourcing
A diversified group built around textiles, apparel, sourcing and international commercial operations.
Companies
Markets
Sri Lanka · Bangladesh · India · Pakistan · Singapore · United Kingdom
Travel · Tourism · Hospitality
A Sri Lankan travel enterprise focused on creating exceptional travel experiences and showcasing Sri Lanka to the world.
Sri Lanka
The portfolio continues
Additional ventures will appear here as they are established — across hospitality, fitness, lifestyle, technology, consumer brands and investments.
Hospitality
Fitness
Lifestyle
Technology
Consumer brands
Investments
Career
2003—2005
Senior Executive — Merchandising
2005—2010
Senior Manager — Marketing & Sales
Headed UK & EU divisions of Brandix Textiles PLC. Key brands included Marks & Spencer, NEXT and Tommy.
2010—Present
Founder / Managing Director
2011—2012
A.G.M. — Porcelain Division / Royal Fernwood Porcelain Ltd
Also involved with The Loft flagship showroom.
2012—Present
Founder / Chairman / Managing Director
2016—2017
Country Representative — Bangladesh
Representing Brandix Textiles Mill for the Bangladesh market.
Markets
Operations and commercial relationships across South Asia, the Middle East, Singapore and the United Kingdom — held together by a base in Sri Lanka.
Practice
Formation
2024—2025
EMSc in Digital Marketing
2019—2020
Master of Business Administration — MBA
1986—1999
GCE Ordinary Level & Advanced Level — Business Studies
Standing
DBA (USA)
Honorary Doctor of Business Administration
American National Business University
MBA
Master of Business Administration
Asia e University
C Mgr · FCMI
Chartered Manager · Fellow
Chartered Management Institute
FCIM
Fellow
Chartered Institute of Marketing
MIPA
Member
Institute of Public Accountants
AFA
Associate
Institute of Financial Accountants
Leadership
Thematic statements drawn from the professional biography — not attributed quotations.
On organisations
Every element of a business has to interact if the whole is to work collaboratively and effectively.
On judgement
Clear communication, commercial awareness and commercial judgement are the basis of durable relationships — internally and externally.
On teams
Senior work is still team work: delivering success against clearly defined objectives, over years rather than quarters.
About
Entrepreneur. Business builder. Strategist. Relationship builder. International operator. Team leader.
The work has never been a single industry or a single market. It has been the practice of building — from merchandising floors and mill relationships to travel, porcelain, sourcing and the companies that now sit under B&N Group and Ceylon Travelex.
What carries across those chapters is a way of seeing: how product, people, markets and management fit together, and how relationships — once earned — become the architecture of a business.
Contact
For business, partnerships, opportunities and conversations that create meaningful value.
Email available on request.
