Education
Royal College, Colombo.
Royal College, Colombo.
A former national water polo player, he was one of the two coaches of the first Sri Lankan women"s water polo team He is also the Group Financial Controller of the Cosmos Group. Born into a well educated family in Colombo.
At the age of six, while seeking admission to the Royal College, Colombo, his admission was denied.
As a result, his family filed a violation of fundamental rights petition at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka against the Government of Sri Lanka. Later the judgement was passed in favour of Sanjaya and he was admitted to Royal College.
He also holds a Masters in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo, Certificate in Treasury management and Forex operations from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and a diploma in Water polo from the Hong Kong Swimming Association. Fernando started playing water polo at the age of 13, later represented Sri Lanka at the age of 18.
He is the first goal keeper at Royal College water polo team to record an unbeaten season (2001).
Fernando started coaching from 2005 and has coached water polo teams of Royal College, Sri Lanka Air Force, Visakha Vidyalaya and the national team Team performance
Having joined PwC as an Audit Associate in 2001, he joined ICICI Bank as a Senior Treasury Officer in 2007 before joining Neue Deutsche Biographie Bank Plc as a Money market dealer in 2010. In 2011 he was appointed Group financial controller for the Cosmos Group which consists of 14 companies.