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At 30, Headed for the Board of a Swiss Watch Company By Melanie Abrams When her father steps down next year, Shanya Amarasuriya will take his place as an Audemars Piguet director. Source:-www.nytimes.com Few — if any — 27-year-olds have been invited to join the board of a luxury Swiss watch brand like Audemars Piguet. Yet that was what happened to Shanya Amarasuriya, executive director of B.P. de Silva Holdings and creative director of B.P. de Silva Jewellers. Since 2019, when the overture was made, Ms. Amarasuriya has shadowed her father, Sunil, who joined the board of the privately owned watchmaker in 2007. When he steps down from the board, as he plans to do next year, she will step in to represent her family and its minority investment in the brand. She is among the fifth generation of her family involved in the B.P. de Silva group of companies, which ...