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Board of Trustees
Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer
Pathmanaba Iyer is the Chairperson and a founding director of Noolaham Foundation. He contributes substantially towards the Foundation's outreach work, in locating source materials, and in raising funds.
Pathmanaba Iyer was born in 1941 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He graduated in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He has worked as a Divisional Officer in the Land Commissioner’s Department from 1972 to end of 1989 when until he left for the United Kingdom.
He pioneered Sri Lankan Tamil digitization efforts in collaboration with Project Madurai in 1999. He is a well known publisher and founded and operates Tamiliyal Publications. His contribution to the Sri Lankan Tamil Literature spans more than four decades. Pathmanaba Iyer was instrumental in bringing creative works with diverse point of views to the fore. In 2004, he was awarded with Iyal Viruthu, an award organized by the South Asia Studies Centre of the University of Toronto and Tamil Literary Garden, for his lifetime achievements.
He is located in London, United Kingdom.
Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Shaseevan is the Chief Executive Director of Noolaham Foundation. He is the founder and a founding director of Noolaham Foundation. He contributed as a Project Coordinator of Project Noolaham and organised many successful projects. Under his management, Project Noolaham grew exponentially in number of works digitized, its organizational capacity was strengthened and the Noolaham Foundation was created.
Shaseevan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1982. He followed B.Sc. (Physics, Mathematics and Statistics) in University of Colombo. He has completed the diploma level in the British Computer Society (BCS) examinations. His research interests are Networked Information Economy/Tech-Sociology, Information Science - Architecture - Society, Knowledge Economy, Technological change on Culture, Politics and Society.
Shaseevan is currently working as the Executive Director of the International Institute of Research and Analytical Activities, a research institute that coordinates existing talents and aims to provide independent spaces for their interaction and integration.
He is located in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Kopinath Thillainathan
Kopinath is the Chief Information Officer of the Noolaham Foundation. He is the co-founder and founding coordinator of Project Noolaham and a founding director of the Noolaham Foundation. He had designed, planned, defined the standards and initiated the Project Noolaham.
He was born in 1982 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He is a Finance and Accounting graduate from the University of Curtin, Australia. Currently he is following Master of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
His focuses on building platforms to create digital Tamil content with efficiency. He contributes to Tamil Wikimedia projects as well. His research interests are Information Science and Knowledge Economy.
He is located in Perth, Australia.
Seran Sivananthamoorthy
Seran is the Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation. He administrates the day to day operations of Noolaham's digitalization efforts. Seran is handling Noolaham Foundations operations and Projects. Earlier he worked as a General Manager in Noolaham Foundation.
Seran was born in 1990 in Jaffna. He studied in Jaffna Hindu College. Currently, he is an Engineering undergraduate student at the University of Moratuwa, Colombo.
He has actively participated in various activities and held leading positions including President, Secretary etc in school level.
He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Anuheman Annalingam
Anuheman is the Chief Administrating officer of the Foundation. Anuheman is coordinating regional chapters and handling administration issues of the foundation.
Anuheman was born in 1990 in Jaffna. He studied in Colombo Hindu College. Currently, he is an Engineering undergraduate student at the University of Moratuwa, Colombo.
He has actively participated in various activities and held leading positions including President, Secretary etc in school clubs.
He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Guruparan Kumaravadivel
Guruparan is responsible for the legal issues related to the Foundation.
Guruparan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. Kumaravadivel Guruparan is currently a Chevening Scholar reading for his Masters in Law at Balliol College of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Prior to leaving for Oxford he worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Law of the University of Jaffna. He holds an LL.B Hons from the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo and is an Attorney at Law. At the University of Colombo he was awarded among three other academic awards, the Dean of the Faculty of Law's Most Outstanding student of the year at the general Convocation held in 2010. He received his secondary education from Jaffna Hindu College.
He is Founder Secretary of the Jaffna Forum for Social Empowerment which works towards recreating public spheres in Jaffna for dialogue on politics and public policy. He Co Founded the Sri Lankan Youth Parliament and was its Convener from 2004-2007. He is a founder member of Beyond Borders Sri Lanka and has produced five forum theater productions on current political and social issues. In October 2008 he was a Visitor in residence with Oxfam Spain and undertook a speaking tour across Spain covering issues relating to Youth, Minorities and Conflict. He has in the past worked with many leading think tanks both in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. He is frequently invited to comment on various aspects of law and governance and politics in Sri Lanka and has spoken at conferences in London, Madrid, Berlin, Sydney and Pune.
He is currently located in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Registered Company Secretary of the Foundation
Sentitcumaran Ramalingham
Sentitcumaran is the Registered Company Secretary of the Foundation.
He was born in 1972 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and educated in Jaffna St. Johns College. He passed out as an Attorney-at-Law from the Sri Lanka Law College in 1999. He is practicing as a Notary Public and a Registered Company secretary.
He is a partner of the law firm SV Law Associates and chairman of the Eesho Property Care (Pvt) Ltd. He is an active member of the Lions clubs International District 306B1 (Home club- Lions club of Kotahena) and severed as the Chairperson-Constitution and by laws and Chairman-Elections and nominations.
He is located in Bambalapitiya, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
