Team 2011

Noolaham Foundation 2010

Board of Trustee Members

Pathmanaba Iyer - Chairperson

Rathina Pathmanaba Iyer - Chairperson

Pathmanaba Iyer is a leading editor, writer, 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 contributed substantially to the Noolahams outreach work, in locating source materials, and in raising funds. He is located in London, England.

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

Responsibilitywise members

• Seran Sivananthamoorthy - Chief Operational Officer

Seran is a undergraduate Engineering student at University of Moratuwa. In his school days, he actively took part in various co curricular activities.

• NimalPrakashan Skandakumar - Technology

Nimal is graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; with career interests in Systems Engineering, Information Security, Databases and Bio-informatics, with special expertise in Privacy Enabled Systems and Multimedia.

• Vinodh Rajan - Wiki Technology

Vinodh is a graduate in Chemical engineering as well as Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai, India.

• Guruparan Kumaravadivel - Legal Issues
• 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
• Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer - England +
• Sayanthan Kathiresampillai- Switzerland
• Letchumanan Murugapoopathy - Australia
• Chandravathana Selvakumaran - Germany
• Koneshwaran Saravanamuthu - Singapore

Honorary Members (Former Board of Trustee Members)

• M. Mauran
• P. Ealanathan
• P. M. Punniyaameen

General Manager

• A. Valarmathy

(+) Responsibility for two activities

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