Vajira Kulatilaka awarded AITTA award

CEO, NDB Group Investment Banking Cluster, Vajira Kulatilaka was recently awarded the AITAA Distinguished Alumni Award (2011), for Business and Professional Achievements, by the Asian Institute of Technology Alumni Association (AITAA). He was awarded this accolade in recognition of his service in the region for outstanding professional and technical achievements at the 40th Governing Board Meeting in October 2011 held at the World Resort Genting, Malaysia.

While at NDB, Vajira has led numerous teams that have carried successful and record breaking transactions, many which have earned NDB Investment Bank its current position as the leading investment bank in the country. Vajira was instrumental in introducing to the country, a new model for carrying out securitisations.

This model was embraced as the industry benchmark in securitisations today.

Prior to NDB, Vajira has served in key strategic positions in a number of high profile organizations in Sri Lanka and overseas, including the United States Agency for International Development, Sampath Bank and CKN Fund Management. He currently holds several directorships within the NDB Group and is on the Board of Directors at the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Vajira hails from a multi-disciplinary academic background, having initially entered the engineering field where he obtained a BSc inEngineering (First Class), from the University of Moratuwa and a MEng in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.