Amana Takaful Insurance's Corporate Lounge to take corporate professionalism to new heights

The ' Takaful Corporate Lounge' forum is another-first, unique initiative of Amana Takaful Insurance, which aims to raise professionalism in corporate performance and management by analyzing and expounding real life corporate successes and achievements.

By inviting super-achieving professionals to share their experiences and achievements with a select group of top customers, ATI hopes to empower the participants with wealth of hot ground breaking information. The first ever Corporate Lounge forum was held on the 10th August, 2007 at the Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel with Mr. Nushad Perera, General Manager Sales and Marketing, Dialog Telekom as the Key-note Speaker. Mr. Perera spoke about his experience in upbringing Dialog Telekom from being no.4 in the market place to become no.1 in Sri Lanka’s revolutionized telecommunication market in a very short period of time, which has all the ingredients of an exciting thriller. Mr. Perera also gave a brief description on the future trends of telecommunications and broadband networks, and also emphasized that its reality is very close. Afterwards the forum included a lively discussion, which showcased high value knowledge transfer amongst the invitees. “The event was well attended and had a good mix of people. It is nice of Amana Takaful Insurance to have events of this nature and shows their commitment to taking insurance beyond the boundaries” commended Mr. Nushad Perera with regard to the success of the event.

"We have created this to raise overall professionalism in the corporate sector. Super achievers are a breed apart. They have their own unique styles, techniques and approaches, which may not be covered in management books. These, coupled with their experience in pressure-cooker situations, thriving and succeeding therein, is hot material that is sure to fire up top corporate players and spur them to even greater performances. This is most important and opportune for the country too. To compete successfully in the global marketplace, efficiency and productivity must constantly be raised. We have to be up-to-date and constantly refocusing our work and efforts" said Mr. Safwan Hilme, Senior Brand Executive, Amana Takaful Insurance.

Some of the participant’s present at the event highly praised ATI’s effort in introducing such programmes to the corporate Sector. Mr. Sanjiv Keerthiratne, CEO of Lanka Orix Insurance Broker’s mentioned that “it was an excellent show and I expect to see many more.” Also giving comments was Mr. S.L.M.Fausz, Chairman of Rainco (Pvt) Ltd mentioning that “This event has helped me learn something new and the advice given is very useful”. Mr. Tyronne Rodrigo, Finance Manager of Merbok MDF also commended that event was “A wonderful evening and a well presented key note speech.”

ATI hopes to conduct the forum regularly, and make it a continuously on-going project. It is a laudable initiative with success guaranteed. Marking its presence for nearly a decade, Amana Takaful PLC has already taken the local insurance market by storm, and are the pioneers of the Takaful concept of insurance in Sri Lanka. They are entrenching themselves with dynamism powered by a driven staff. The Corporate Lounge initiative shows their creativity and focus on the future.

ATI offers a variety of policies and has grown from strength to strength in such a short span of time with phenomenal growth and a rapidly expanding client base who are all attracted by the Takaful system. ATI was the first company in Sri Lanka to offer a surplus refund to its customers, whereby the underwriting profit is shared among all participants who have not made any claims during the year. ATI has already a network of 15 branches in Sri Lanka and has a fully fledged operation in the Maldives.