Dumith Fernanado is the Chairman of Asia Securities Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, a leading independent Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Research, and Stock Broking firm in Sri Lanka. He has over two decades of experience in international Investment Banking, based in New York and Hong Kong with the U.S. bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and the Swiss bank Credit Suisse AG. Until 2013, he was Managing Director and Group Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Pacific region at Credit Suisse – a business with over USD 2.5bn in revenue across 12 countries, and a member of that firm's Global Leadership Council.
He is a former Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange and currently a Director of Union Assurance PLC and Sri Lankan Airlines Ltd.
He holds a BA (Honors) in Physics & Economics from Middlebury College in the U.S. and an MBA from Harvard Business School.