Our Board of Trustees

Dileep Nair has more than 30 years of experience in governance and public service in the Singapore Civil Service and the United Nations.

He was with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs serving as the High Commissioner to the Republic of Ghana from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, Dileep was the Ambassador to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic from 2011 to 2013 and the Consul-General to the Emirate of Dubai from 2006 to 2010. He was the Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services at the United Nations from 2000 to 2005.

Dileep is now an Independent Director of Keppel DC REIT, Thakral Corporation Limited, and Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited, as well as a Board Member of Health Sciences Authority of Singapore.  He is also a part-time lecturer at the Civil Service College of Singapore.

Dileep has been awarded the Public Service Medal (Silver) and the 25-year Grand Award for Community Service by the Singapore Government.

Dr. Asha was previously managing her own dental clinic for over two decades and has since sold her clinic. She continues to practise at Novena Medical Centre and has been an active member of the Singapore Dental Association for close to four decades.

She was a member of the Association’s Audit Committee and chaired several other committees most notably, the Ethics and Practice Management Committee.

She held the position of President of the Singapore Dental Health Foundation, a voluntary organisation focused on public health education.

Mr Foo was an institutional stock dealer. He is one of Singapore’s most illustrious volunteers, with a resume of beneficiary organisations that includes Sree Narayana Mission (Singapore), SWAMI Home, Christalite Methodist Home, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital, the Jamiyah organisation, Serving People with Disabilities, PerWanit, Community Centres/Clubs. He is also a volunteer at more than 50 schools, the Community Chest as well as its registered beneficiaries and individuals.

Mr Foo started the Goodie Bag programme – a tie-up with Sheng Shiong to do food distribution event for financially needy families. He was also the visionary force behind Project 100=50, a tie-up with Sheng Shiong, Community Centres/Clubs and grassroots organisations piloted by Heartwarmers volunteer group in 2017. His Year-end Back to School with a Smile programme encourages children from challenging backgrounds to get enthused about school. Mr Foo also started We Love Learning Centre, a centre where children from challenging backgrounds can drop by to read, study, and attend tuition and enrichment classes.

Mr Foo was co-opted to the BOT in 2021.

Mr Jayadev says that he was very fortunate to be exposed to Sree Narayana Guru’s teachings from a very young age. The values imbibed has guided his life. He has served in various capacities in SNM. Prior to his election as President of SNM in 2019, he served as Trustee of SNM for more than 10 years. Now that his term as President has ended, he is serving as a Trustee once more.

He is involved in the community as a grassroots leader, and currently serves as the Treasurer of Chong Pang Citizen’s Consultative Committee and Community Development Welfare Fund Committee. He chairs the Malayalam Language Education Society which promotes the Malayalam Language and the Vice-Chairman of Northbrooks Secondary School Advisory Committee.

Mr Jayadev is a Director of Suriya Trading Enterprise (S) Pte Ltd, manufacturer of House Brand Food Products. An accountant by training, he is glad to be associated with a profession that is defined by integrity and truth.

Mr Manu is a Partner of the Centennial Group, a strategic advisory firm headquartered in Washington DC and Founding CEO of its Singapore subsidiary Centennial Asia Advisors.  He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore while also serving on various advisory and corporate boards such as the Advisory Board of the International Monetary Fund in Asia.

As a director of companies including Japfa Limited which is listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, he has also been on board committees such as the audit committee and nomination committee. He has also served in the past as a Trustee of international institutions such as The Asia Foundation in Asia and the CFA Institute Research Foundation.

Mr Rajesh Sreenivasan is a Partner and Head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Law Practice at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP and the Coordinating Partner for the firm’s multidisciplinary and cross-practice Data and Digital Economy (DDE) Legal Services. He is a Director and co-founder of two legal tech entities: Rajah & Tann Technologies, and Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity. With over 20 years in practice, he has been universally recognised as
the leading technology, media, and telecoms lawyer in Singapore.

Mr Rajesh plays a significant role in leading legal sector transformation and innovation initiatives at a National level culminating in his work on the EXCO of Lupi, the world’s first open platform for legal management and collaboration. Lupi powers the Legal Technology Platform (LTP), a key initiative in the Ministry of Law’s Technology and Innovation roadmap for the legal sector. He sits on several International Boards. He was elected to the Board of Trustee (BOT) in 2021.

Ms Sunu was an Education Officer (LEAD Teacher) with MOE. She was a professional and pedagogical leader who guided teachers (School, Cluster and Zone) in quality teaching and learning. She was also a Mentor Coach at MOE HQ and trained MOE teacher-mentors in Instructional Mentoring and Coaching, for effective teaching and learning. Since retiring in 2021, Mrs Sunu continues to be a flexi adjunct Education Officer.

She currently serves as the Vice-President of Singapore Malayalee Association (SMA) and is one of the Directors of SMA Care Limited. She was elected to the BOT in 2021.

Dr Thara Ravindran is currently a Research Fellow at the Information and Management Centre, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. She has been part of a National Research Foundation (NRF) funded project on entrepreneurship and innovation and is the co-author of a recently published book titled “Identifying Business Opportunities Through Innovation”. She was also involved in a successful grant application of The City Pulse Project for the Ministry of National Development, which is the highest grant secured by Nanyang Business School. Her domains of research include usability of delivery robots and sustainability.

She was elected to the BOT in 2021.

Mr Viswa Sadasivan is the Founder and Managing Consultant of Strategic Moves – a respected
corporate strategy communications consulting practice. Over the past 40 years, he has held various public sector leadership positions that requires a deep appreciation for governance. Mr Viswa served on several public sector boards including Media Development Board, and SPRING Singapore where he was co-chairman of the audit Committee. He served on the Executive Committee of SINDA as Vice President for a decade and subsequently on its
Board of Trustees.

Mr Viswa is also a long serving member of the National Youth Achievement Award Council and
served 5 years on the board of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. As a board member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre, he was actively involved in promoting mediation in Asia, especially in India. Mr Viswa has been a principal mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and has been on its panel since its inception in 1997.
He also served on the national Economic Review Committee and the Singapore 21 Committee.

Trained as an elite Guardsman, Mr Viswa has served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for 40 years as a National Serviceman. He rose to the rank of Colonel, and his last position was Deputy Director, Joint Operations, SAF. Mr Viswa served with distinction as a Nominated Member of Parliament from 2009 to 2011. At the age of 32, Mr Viswa was elected as the President of then-Singapore Kerala Association (now Singapore Malayalee Association) for one term. Mr Viswa holds a Master of Public Administration degree from then-Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.