Mr Namal Ratnayake joined Mobitel as the Senior Manager Legal in 2005. He was appointed to the post of General Manager Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Network Interconnect and Integration in 2008. Subsequently he was promoted to the post of Senior General Manager for the same scope. In October 2023, he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Chief Legal Officer of SLT Group and subsequently in April 2024 he was promoted to the post of Chief Legal Officer of SLT PLC Group.

He is responsible for legal and regulatory matters of the SLT PLC Group and interacts with the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka in respect of all telecom regulatory matters including spectrum, license, tariff, network. He is also responsible for handling the financial regulatory aspects related to mobile money product namely mCash of Mobitel (Private) Limited and liaises with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as the Compliance Officer for mobile money at Mobitel.

Prior to joining Mobitel, Mr Ratnayake has served as a State Counsel at the Attorney General’s Department of the Government of Sri Lanka from 1998 to 2005. He has handled areas of banking, contracts, insurance, intellectual property and property inter-alia. Mr Ratnayake started his career in 1996 at Hayleys Group, one of the Sri Lankan blue chip companies, as an executive serving Hayleys Electronics (Private) Limited for a period of two years.

Mr Ratnayake is a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.