Team 2011
Board of Trustees
Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer
Pathmanaba Iyer is the Chairperson of Noolaham Foundation. He contributes substantially to the Noolahams outreach work, in locating source materials, and in raising funds.
He is a well known publisher, and archivist of Tamil works. 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.
He is located in London, United Kingdom.
Shaseevan Ganeshananthan - Executive Director
Shaseevan is a Research Fellow at Beyond Borders (for IDRC and NUS Research), Executive Director at International Institute of Research and Analytical Activities (IIRAA), Executive Director at Noolaham Foundation, and a student at British Computer Society. He is the driving force behind Noolaham, and the Information Network. Under his management, Noolaham grew exponentially in number of works digitalized, and its organizational capacity was strengthened. He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Kopinath Thillainathan - Chief Information Officer
Kopinath is a founding member of Noolaham. His focus is on building platforms to create digital Tamil content with efficieny. He contributed to the initial development of the Naal Oru Nool digitization project, and contributes to Tamil Wikimedia projects. He is located in Australia.
Associate Members
Responsibility-wise members
- Seran Sivananthamoorthy - Chief Operational Officer
Seran is the Chief Operational Officer of Noolaham. He administrators the day to day operations of Noolaham's digitalization efforts. Seran is an Engineering student at the University of Moratuwa, and is an up-and-coming Tamil scholar. He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- NimalPrakashan Skandakumar - Technology
Nimal is the Technological Lead for Noolaham. Nimal is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His career focus is in Systems Engineering, Information Security, Databases and Bio-informatics, with special expertise in Privacy Enabled Systems and Multimedia. He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Vinodh Rajan - Wiki Technology
Vinodh is the Wiki Developer for Noolaham. He is fluent in English, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. Vinodh is a graduate in Information Technology and Chemical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. He is located in Chennai, India.
- Guruparan Kumaravadivel - Legal Issues
Guruparan is the legal advisor for Noolaham. He is assistant lecturer attached to the Department of Law in the University of Jaffna. He teaches Constitutional Law, Public International Law and the Law of Delict. Previously he has worked as a consultant with the Centre for Policy Alternatives, Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies and the International Crisis Group. He was Founder Convenor of the Sri Lankan Youth Parliament and a member of the National Taskforce on Youth Employment. This September he will join the University of Oxford as a post graduate student in Law on a Chevening Scholarship awarded by the Government of the United Kingdom.
- Mathusoothanan Thedsanamoorthy - Information Network
- Srikanthaluxmi Arulanantham - Library Science Standards
- Atchuthan Sivakumar - Accounts
- Ramanan Santhirasegaramoorthy - Project Periodicals
Project Coordinating Members - Partner Projects
- Selvaraja Sajeev Edward - Colombo Tamil Sangam
- Rajaratnam Sivachandran - Project Jaffna
Project Coordinating Members - Collaborative Projects
- Pollachi Nasan - Thamizham
- Prabu Nadaraja - Suvadi Digital Library
- Thavaseelan Sivaguru - Tamil National Archive
Public Interaction Members - counrtywise
- Piratheepan Paramanathan - USA
- Sarawanan Nadarasa - Norway
- Thurai Kumaresan - India
- Natkeeran Ledchumikanthan - Canada
- Sayanthan Kathiresampillai- Switzerland
- Letchumanan Murugapoopathy - Australia
- Chandravathana Selvakumaran - Germany
- Koneshwaran Saravanamuthu - Singapore
General Manager
- A. Valarmathy
Honorary Members
(Former Board of Trustee Members)
- M. Mauran
- P. Ealanathan
- P. M. Punniyaameen
Noolaham Foundation 2009
Board of Trustee Members
- R. Pathmanaba Iyer ‐ Chairperson
- G. Shaseevan - Executive Director
- T. Kopinath - Chief Information Officer
- P. Piratheepan
- M. Mauran
- Pollachi Nasan
- S. Vinodh Rajan
- P. M. Punniyameen
- S. Ramanan
Public Interaction 2008-09
- R. Pathmanaba Iyer (England)
- Meera Bharathy (Canada)
- Pollachi Nasan (India)
- N. Saravanan (Norway)
- K. Sayanthan (Switzerland)
- P. Piratheepan (USA)
- P. Eelanathan (Singapore)
- R. Mathubhashini (Australia)
- S. Chandravathana (Germany)
General Manager
- Sajeev Edward (May - August)
- S. Satgunarajah (September - December)
Deputy Manager
- A. Valarmathy
Noolaham Foundation 2008
Board of Trustee Members
- R. Pathmanaba Iyer ‐ Chairperson
- G. Shaseevan
- T. Kopinath
- P. Piratheepan
- M. Mauran
- L. Natkeeran
- P. Eelanathan
