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Someswaran Jayewickreme & Co. (currently, Deloitte) in 1988 as an Audit Trainee. She also served as an Audit Manager and as Director of Consultancy prior to being appointed as Financial Controller at Aramex Airborne Lanka. For a brief period, she also served as Financial Controller at Confifi Hotels. She joined Hemas Holdings PLC in March 2002 as Director Finance at HemTours and continued to hold many senior management positions, including Chief Processing Officer and Managing Director of the Hemas Transportation Sector. Her portfolio also included Hemas Aviation, Hemas Logistics and Hemas Maritime Services. In 2016, she was appointed as the Managing Director of Hemas Pharmaceuticals, Hemas Surgicals and Hemas Diagnostics and in 2020 she became the Group CEO of Hemas Holdings PLC and became the first female Group CEO of a public quoted conglomerate in Sri Lanka.
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Parliament of Sri Lanka and USAID. Kasturi was also the recipient of the Career Role Model Award in 2013 by Women in Management, Sri Lanka and the IFC; a World Bank Group. In 2016, she also won
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