Mr. Arosh Benaragama had been a student of Holy Cross College since 1980. He sat for the GCE Ordinary Level examination in 1989 and received instruction in engineering stream for the GCE Advanced Level examination in 1992.

Throughout his college career, he had been a very intellectual student who displayed his performance in academic activities. He was regular in attendance and diligent in his studies.
After the college career, he started his higher studies in Applied Science. He was graduated as B.Sc. in Applied Science from university of Sri Jayewardenepura in 1998. After that he became a professional charted management accountant by receiving the ACMA-UK (Associate Charted Management Accountant) in 1999. Furthermore he completed his masters’ degree in 2003 as Master of Business Administration from University of Colombo.

He started his career as a Management Accountant in 1998 at Union Apparels Pvt Limited. He was given his contribution to Union Apparels till 2001. After that he had joined to Hatton National Bank in as a project analyst. He was promoted as project relationship manager of Hatton National Bank in 2002, who is responsible for managing of large project financing portfolios of the bank. After that he was promoted as the Account Relationship Manager of corporate banking division of HNB in 2004. At that time, he was the person who was responsible for managing large corporate customers such as Ceylinco, Heyleys, Siedles, Abans etc... Adhere to that he has conducted many training programs for nearly 1000 employees of the bank in the areas of credit, financial analysis and risk management. He is the only person to be promoted to the management grade of the Hatton National Bank within a short period of time, which is 5 years service in the bank.

At the present, he is the relationship Manager of Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank (HSBC) Jeddah (Saudi) center in charge of a corporate client portfolio. 

Born in June 2nd 1973, in Kalutara, Kelaniyage Jayantha Silva, entered Holy Cross College in 1985 and left school in 1992. Since leaving college in the year, represented Physical Culture Sports Club – Kalutara, Blomfield C & A Club – Colombo and Singhalese Sports Club, Colombo from 1992 – 2000, as a slows left arm orthodox spinner. He represented Sri Lanka National Cricket team from the year 1995 upto 2000.

He started his test career in against Ausrtralia at Melbourn Cricket Grounds in Sydney on 26th December 1995, and ODI debut against New Zealand at Jade Stadium on 26th March 1995. During his short but energetic career in the National Team, he played in 7 test matches and 1 ODI match. His best achievement was 4 wickets for 16 runs.

In the year 2000 he migrated to Australia, and continued playing for a number of cricket clubs in Australia. He represented Marnatha Cricket Club in Melbourne, Australia 2000/2001 and Flinders Cricket Club in Melbourne, Australia – 2002/2004 In the year 2002, became the best bowler in the tournament by capturing 46 wickets.

Presently Jayantha is serving as a the senior coach of Flinders Cricket Club from the year 2004.On 20th September 2007 Jayantha silva represented “Cricket Legends” cricket tournament organized by the Cricket Board of Sri Lanka.

As a member of our Group we are proud about you and the honour you have brought to our Alma Mater.