Ceylinco's director addresses MDRT

Devaan Cooray addresses the MDRT in Indianapolis, USA.

Ceylinco Life Director Devaan Cooray was the first South Asian non-member of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) to be invited to address the world's top forum for elite financial advisors. The annual gathering of the world's top life insurance sales professionals held this year in Indianapolis, USA, was attended by 6,000 people from 86 countries and Cooray, one of the first employees of Ceylinco Life, delivered a one hour presentation on how to avoid the debt trap, one of his pet topics.

The presentation, titled 'Good Bye Worry; Hello Confidence; Plenty of money to go around' was one of two by South Asians and the first by a South Asian non-member in the 82-year history of the MDRT. Commenting on Mr. Cooray's achievement, Ceylinco Life Deputy Chairman R. Renganathan said addressing a top forum such as the MDRT can be considered the pinnacle of a career in training. "Although 50 percent of the MDRT membership is from Asian countries, until this year, no South Asian had addressed the Annual Meeting and we are happy a director of Ceylinco Life was accorded that privilege."

The majority of MDRT speakers in previous years have been from the USA and Canada and a few from Europe and South Africa.

Cooray, a former Professional Trainer for the Sri Lanka Air Force joined Ceylinco Insurance in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Life Underwriters Training Council-USA (LUTC), a Chartered Insurance Agency Manager (CIAM), a Certified Manager of Financial Advisors (CMFA) and the holder of the Chartered Insurance Institute Award-UK.