About Us

The Chairman/CEO Mr. Roshan Hassen, who now possesses over 20-years practical experience in all facets of negotiation and debt recovery began his career as a Business Development Associate in Eagle Insurance Company Limited, a well established insurance company affiliated to British American Tobacco, where during the tenure of his employment he continuously won the prestigious “Higher Achievement Award” in the years 1995, 1996 and 1997 devolving on his performance in securing business and recovery of insurance premium. With a view to widening his knowledge and horizons in the preliminary stabilization and expansion activities of a newly established company Mr. Hassen joined Vanik Insurance Brokers (Pvt) limited, a company affiliated to Vanik Group of Companies, in the capacity of Senior Marketing Manager, where he continued to utilize his experience with optimum benefit to the new company by stabilizing its position and expanding the company clientele and turnover.

Mr. Hassen, thereafter joined Arpico Finance Company Limited, a company which was established over 50-years ago, in the capacity of Assistant General Manager – Marketing , where his expertise in negotiation and recovery of debts proved to be an invaluable asset to the company.

Taking into consideration his experience and know-how of debt recovery and negotiation with clients, in January 2006, Mr. Hassen established John Ford Credit Management (Pvt) Limited, which in a short space of time became one of the leading debt recovery companies in Sri Lanka. and subsequently to concentrate primarily on recoveries on behalf of overseas clients established John Ford Recoveries International (Pvt) Limited which company has already gained appreciable momentum in this particular field of debt recovery.

Our General Manager Mr. Chris Yoheswaran, counts 23 years experience in managing sales, marketing, operations, personal and service delivery at the district, regional and corporate levels for commencing operations and established companies. A strong leader with a motivational management style and a strong leader with a reputation for building and retaining highly motivated sales and service delivery teams and distributor networks, he is a Six Sigma Green Belt with an extensive scope of responsibility and proven success having a track record for achieving optimal results in high growth environments through incentives exceeding performance targets. He is a results oriented achiever having an excellent track record for identifying opportunities for accelerated growth.

Mr. Yoheswaran began his career in the hospitality industry at John Keells where he worked for 11-years and was one of the main team members that opened he first international fast food chain in Sri Lanka – Pizza Hut. During this period he was the lead manager who established the initial Home Delivery Service and one number call centre in this country.

He thereafter joined HSBC Global and subsequently HSBC local bank where he served for a period of 03-years.

Upon resigning from HSBC he assumed duties at Airtel where he worked for 09- years in all areas including collection and recovery operations. At Airtel he began operations as Head of Audits & Compliance and thereafter as Head of Provisioning. Later he was in charge of SIM Card activations and Recoveries . At this juncture he became Head of Customer Servicing / Zonal Operations.

He is an ISO Certified Auditor with a green belt in bad debt recovery.