Mr. De Silva is a Chartered Accountant whose expertise covers Auditing, Accounting, Tax Planning, Financial Investigations and Financial Management. Now retired, he has spent 36 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in a number of countries; mainly at PwC Botswana, where he was a partner for 19 years and Chief Operating Officer for 9 years. While still with PwC Botswana, he served a large portfolio of Audit/Tax Clients and provided business advisory services to many large privately-owned corporates in Botswana. Mr. De Silva is an Independent Non-Executive Director for three Old Mutual Insurance subsidiaries in Botswana: Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, FAR Property Company Limited and Debt Participation Capital Funding Limited. He is a member of numerous professional bodies including Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) of UK and Fellow Member of the Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.
