This year the Sri Lankan Airlines has invited six eminent persons namely Dilshan Rodrigo (Chief Operations Officer of Hatton National Bank), Professor Ajantha Dharmasiri (Chairman & Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura), Deepal Sooriyaarachchi (Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission), Rohini Nanayakkara (Chairperson of LOLC), Chanaka Yatawara (Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of United Motors Lanka), and Prashantha Lal De Alwis (President’s Counsel and Honorary Consul General for Seychelles in Sri Lanka).

The six mentors will guide twenty four members of the ‘Succession Pool’ in their careers over the next two years. The National Carrier’s Succession Pool is comprised of the Airline’s best performing Executives and Managers who have been identified for critical positions and have consistently ranked among the best in performance appraisals.

This is the second batch of Succession Pool members who are being mentored by eminent professionals from outside the Airline. Mentors have several Succession Pool members assigned as mentees. Mentors and mentees will be stay in close touch with each other from now on with regular guidance sessions on a one-on-one basis.