Breaking news - my father is back with CEB after 9 years
I was trying to find out any news on my father’s appointment to the board of CEB, alas there is nothing out there! Only thing I can find is a small contribution my father made to Digital Butterflies sometime back. History is that he joined CEB in 1962 and retired as the General Manager (equivalent to CEO) in 1997. I am very happy for him. According to my mom, he did not want the job (refused the chairmanship and asked for the deputy role - too much politics involved at CEB) but left this morning to work with a happy smile…
His name is not on the websphere, so here is a technorati tag to start the process…Well done dad!
Technorati Tags: CEB, Abey Ranaweera, Ceylon Electricity Board
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[...] This Executive also reminds me of my father. He used to be the General Manager (equivalent to CEO) of CEB (equivalent to UK Electricity Board before privatisation). He used to get calls from all sorts of people, mainly high ranking politicians every time the power lines tripped (which was quite often those days). As a public sector company, he had to respond to those calls. Which meant perhaps tripping a none politicians line so that politician can have power.. [...]