John Keells Holdings PLC announced that Mr. Ashroff Omar has appointed to the board of directors as a Non Executive Director, with effect from March 1, 2013. Mr. Ashroff Omar is a Director of Phoneix Ventures Limited. He is a director of NANCO (Private) Limited which is the Nanotech park in Sri Lanka for initiating and researching Nano technology.

He is also the Chairman of the Export Development Board (EDB), Advisory Committee on Garments and a member of the EDB Advisory Committee on Export Market promotion.