Sanath Fernando

Mr. Sanath Fernando, who co-founded Ridgecrest Financial in the United States, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Ridgecrest. Mr. Fernando is a product of D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo and was a professional athlete. He holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and BSEcon in Finance also from The University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Fernando's career spans over 19 years, of which 13 years was in the securities industry where he held several high profile positions such as Managing Director of Schwab Soundview Capital Markets, Vice President of Epoch Partners, and Principal of Banc of America Securities. At Schwab Soundview Mr. Fernando ran the program trading technology group, giving the trading desk the ability to differentiate itself with technology and the technology team for the program trading business at Banc of America Securities. At Epoch Partners he ran the trading technology organization, building an equity trading platform on a shoestring budget and spinning off a trading technology startup. At the start of his securities career, Mr. Fernando developed quantitative trading systems at Susquehanna International Group. Prior to Susquehanna, he worked as an engineer at a small embedded system company. Mr. Fernando is a Citizen of the United States of America. He is married with two children.He returned to this Country to establish and run the Ridgecrest Sri Lanka office.Mr. Fernando is a member of the Presidential Task Force and functions as the ambassador for English & ICT development