Mr. Rizvi Zaheed currently holds office as the Managing Director of the Halal Assessment Council (HAC) Sri Lanka, Chairman of Oceanpick (Pvt) Ltd. and Director of Hameedia Group.

Mr. Zaheed has held significant positions as the Managing Director of Hayleys Agriculture Holdings Ltd and as a director of Hayleys PLC. With around 40 years of senior management experience in the Sri Lankan agricultural and corporate sectors, he represented Hayleys as a board member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC) during his tenure. Additionally, he served as Chairman of the Agriculture and Livestock Steering Committee and Vice Chairman of the Imports Section at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Currently, he remains actively involved as the Agriculture Lead for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Furthermore, he contributes as a member of the National Agriculture Policy Committee under the Ministry of Agriculture and as a member of the Expert Committee on the Agriculture Modernization Task Force of the Presidential Secretariat playing a crucial role in the development of the agriculture sector in Sri Lanka.

He currently serves as the Chairman of the National Industry Biotechnology Association. Additionally, he is a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Standing Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, as well as the UGC’s Standing Committee on Technology. He also serves on the Food and Beverage Advisory Committee of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board and is a member of the Economic Policy Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Furthermore, he is on the council of the Faculty of Technology at the University of Colombo. He is also involved with the National Science Foundation’s Research and Technology Committees and chairs the NSF’s Agriculture Steering Committee.

Mr. Zaheed is currently the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Agriprenuers’ Forum and was previously Chairman of the National Agribusiness Council. He is currently Vice Chairman of CSR Lanka (Guarantee) Limited, an NGO promoted and formed with the active support of USAID with the aim of engaging the wider Corporate Community in addressing national priorities and facilitate necessary resources to bridge the gap between ad hoc CSR projects and creating sustainable value. He also serves in the Advisory Board of the USAID project on Climate Adaptation.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kelaniya and an MBA from the University of Colombo. He is an alumni of the Industrial Society, UK and Swedish Institute of Management, Sweden and a JCI International senator.

He joined the Board of Vidullanka PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director in July 2018.