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
Shaseevan is Founding Director of Noolaham Foundation from start the foundation in mid 2008.
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 a Research Fellow which is initiated by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and National University of Singapore (NUS) forming a research collaboration with “Beyond Borders” Sri Lanka. He works as the Ececutive Director of The International Institute of Research and Analytical Activities (IIRAA), a research institute that coordinates existing talents and aims to provide independent spaces for their interaction and integration. It evolves around the concepts of Virtual Research Environment (VRE).
He was Contributing Project Coordinator of Project Noolaham and Start several projects. He is the driving force behind Project Noolaham. Under his management, Noolaham grew exponentially in number of works digitalized, and its organizational capacity was strengthened. He founded Noolaham Foundation and working as Executive Director.
He is located in Jaffna and 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 Perth, 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 born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. He studied in Royal College, Sri Lanka. 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.
Nimal following Doctor of Philosophy in Information Security in Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
He is located in Brisbane, Australia.
- 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 Foundation.
Guruparan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. He studied at Jaffna Hindu College. He Graduated Law Degree in University of Colombo. He is batch top and Gold medalist in Law Faculty, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
He was working as a 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.
He will join theUniversity of Oxford as a post graduate student in Law on a Chevening Scholarship awarded by the Government of the United Kingdom
He is located in Oxford, 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
