Sri Lanka, Sept. 25 -- President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed investment banker turned tech entrepreneur Jayamin Pelpola as a board member of the country's apex investment promotion body, the Board of Investment (BOI) with immediate effect.

Jayamin has over 10 years of international investment banking and asset management experience working for Goldman Sachs and Nomura USA. He is the only Sri Lankan to have worked in the Principal Strategies group at Goldman Sachs, an award-winning team recognised for its creative and highest yielding investment strategies on Wall Street.

In his career, Jayamin has structured and managed international investments worth more than US$ 20 billion in various sectors and countries.

As a senior consultan...