Kasturi Chellaraja Wilson is a Sri Lankan businesswoman and the first woman Group CEO of a public quoted conglomerate in Sri Lanka.
Currently, she is the Managing Director of Hemas Pharmaceuticals PVT LTD and Hemas Surgicals and Diagnostics PVT LTD; subsidiaries of Hemas Holdings PLC. On 25 June 2020, it was introduced that she might take over as Group CEO of Hemas Holdings PLC from current Group CEO, Steven Enderby; 1 October 2020. It was additionally announced that Kasturi might be appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Hemas Holdings PLC from 1 July 2020.
Kasturi is a single mother of boys, Ashvindh and Amrith Wilson, and she Captained the National Basketball Team in 1989.
Kasturi was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Capital Alliance Limited in 2018. She serves at the Board of Morison PLC and at the Board of Hemas Consumer Brands. Kasturi is also the first woman to be elected as President of the Sri Lanka Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (SLCPI).
Kasturi is also a major Committee Member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), a Member of the Sub-Committee on Economic, Fiscal and Policy Planning of the Chamber and additionally serves as a Member of the National Agenda Committee for Logistics and Maritime of the Chamber.
Kasturi has additionally served at the Boards of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Sri Lanka.
On 7 August 2019, she was voted to be elected as the President of the Sri Lanka Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry changing Shyam Sathasivam.
In 2019, Kasturi was known as being one of the twelve Top Women Change-Makers withinside the country through the Parliament of Sri Lanka and USAID.
Kasturi was additionally the recipient of the Career Role Model Award in 2013 through Women in Management, Sri Lanka and the IFS, a World Bank Group. In 2016, she additionally received the Women Super Achiever Award at the World Women Leadership Congress Awards, India.
