Team 2011

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 from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He has worked as a mathematics teacher in Sahira College.

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 a Research Fellow in a project initiated by the International Development Research Centre and National University of Singapore forming a research collaboration with “Beyond Borders” Sri Lanka. He also works 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 Jaffna and Colombo, Sri Lanka.

More information about Shaseevan is available on his Site

Kopinath Thillainathan

Kopinath is the Chief Information Officer of the Noolaham Foundation. He is the co-founder of Project Noolaham and a founding director of the Noolaham Foundation.

He was born in 1982 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He is a Finance and Accounting graduate from the University of Curtin, Australia.

His focuses on building platforms to create digital Tamil content with efficiency. He contributes to Tamil Wikimedia projects as well.

He is located in Perth, Australia.

Associate Members

NimalPrakashan Skandakumar

Nimal

Nimal is responsible for the technical infrastructure of the Foundation.

Nimal was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. He studied in Royal College, Sri Lanka. He is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His career focus areas are 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.

More information about NimalPrakashan is available on his Site

Seran Sivananthamoorthy

Seran is the Chief Operational Officer of the Foundation. He administrates the day to day operations of Noolaham's digitalization efforts. Earlier he worked as a General Manager.

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 clubs.

He is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Vinodh Rajan

Vinodh is responsible for the Tamil Digital Library website and contributes as the Wiki Developer. He has spearheaded the optimization of the site by automating wiki tasks, integrating various tools and implementing various updates.

Vinodh was born in 1987 in Chennai, India. He is a graduate in Information Technology and Chemical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. He is fluent in English, Telugu, Tamil & Hindi. His research interests are Computational Linguistics, Indic Language Computing, Orthographies and Web Intelligence.

More of his tools and writings can be found at his site

He is located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Guruparan Kumaravadivel

Guruparan is responsible for the legal issues related to the Foundation.

Guruparan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1985. He studied at Jaffna Hindu College. He is a Law graduate from the University of Colombo. He was the batch top student and Gold medalist in Law Faculty, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

He has as a assistant lecturer attached to the Department of Law in the University of Jaffna ant taught Constitutional Law, Public International Law and the Law of Delict. Prior to that, he had 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 is joining the University 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.

Project Coordinating Members - Partner Projects

• Rajaratnam Sivachandran - Project Jaffna
• Selvaraja Sajeev Edward - Colombo Tamil Sangam

Project Coordinating Members - Collaborative Projects

• Pollachi Nasan - Thamizham
• Prabu Nadaraja - Suvadi Digital Library
• Thavaseelan Sivaguru - Tamil National Archive

Public Interaction Members - Countrywise

• Piratheepan Paramanathan - USA
• Natkeeran Ledchumikanthan - Canada
• Sarawanan Nadarasa - Norway
• Sayanthan Kathiresampillai- Switzerland
• Letchumanan Murugapoopathy - Australia
• Chandravathana Selvakumaran - Germany
• Koneshwaran Saravanamuthu - Singapore
• Thurai Kumaresan - India

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 (May - December)

Noolaham Foundation 2008

Board of Trustee Members

• R. Pathmanaba Iyer ‐ Chairperson
• G. Shaseevan
• T. Kopinath
• P. Piratheepan
• M. Mauran
• L. Natkeeran
• P. Eelanathan