Kotagala Plantations PLC announced that Mr. Yaddehige Udara Sampath Premathilake and Mr. Channa Janaka De Costa have been appointed as Joint CEO's with effect from January 1, 2023. Mr. Udara Premathilake joined as a planter trainee under Janatha Estate Development Board in 1990 (Tea & Ribber). He was posted to Kelani Valley Plantation PLC as a junior assistant manager in 1992.

He was promoted as an estate manager in 1998 and thereafter continued to perform as a group manager, deputy general manager until 2010 at Kelani Valley Plantation PLC. He was then promoted as a general manager for low country and thereafter promoted as director plantation estates at Kelani Valley Plantation PLC in 2019. He joined Kotagala Plantation PLC on the 1 January 2023 as joint chief executive officer, in charge of the low country estates.

He is also a member of the rubber research board of Sri Lanka. Mr. Channa De Costa commenced his career in the plantation sector with Sri Lanka State Plantations Corporation (SLSPC) in the year 1985. With the privatisation of the Plantations, he Joined Maskeliya Plantations, managed by John Keells Holdings, and subsequently Arpico Plantations .

He has been the Manager of Leangawella and Ampitikanda Estates. He was also the Group Manager of Mocha and Laxapana Estates and thereafter promoted as the General Manager of Strathspey Estate. He then joined the commercial sector in Colombo as General Manager in Sales and Marketing.

Mr. De Costa rejoined the plantation sector as the General Manager of Balmoral Estate of Agarapatana Plantations Ltd. in the year 2020. Mr. Channe De Costa was appointed as Joint Chief Executive Officer of Kotagala Plantations PLC, in charge of Up Country Estates, on the 1 January 2023.