Romesh Abhayaratne

Romesh is a visionary and a serial entrepreneur, specialising in wealth creation, preservation, and redistribution. He has more than 25 years of international experience working with global leaders through the investment banking field and, more recently, with a boutique home-grown investment bank, York Street Partners, which he co-founded and directed. Romesh was instrumental in raising the largest private equity investment in the non-banking licensed finance sector in Sri Lanka, acquiring and holding membership of a consortium buying Sri Lanka’s most established and largest security brokerage firm, establishing Sri Lanka’s first private equity fund and crowdfunding platform, and winning two Harvard Business School awards for innovation and impact in capital markets. His earlier experience was in managing a substantial discretionary portfolio of private wealth of Fortune 500 corporate management and high-net-worth individuals with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Brown Alex Brown. He has completed significant investment banking deals in IPOs, secondary issues, private equity, mezzanine, and bridge financing. He was a member of the Global All-Star Team for special investments, comprising Goldman Sachs' top 10 international producers. Romesh holds an MBA and an MPA (Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin, has certifications from Harvard Business School Online, and is a qualified Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas. He is a global Ambassador of Unashamedly Ethical. An avid golfer who has successfully competed internationally. He currently resides in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with his family.