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Young Entrepreneur Award 1) Rangan Srikhantha – CEO and founder of One Education (formerly known as One Laptop Per Child Australia). At One Education, Rangan has developed an innovative approach to provide equity in education through the use of technology built for learning, He has done this by inspiring innovative Principals and Teachers to integrate technology into the delivery of curriculum, making learning fun and engaging for primary school children – https://www.one-education.org/. One Education has stepped even further in the development of its XO laptops by making them modular. The new series of educational laptops is called XO-Infinity. The screen, battery, camera, wireless and core processing (which includes the CPU, memory, and storage) can be easily swapped like LEGO blocks. Now children can use a single laptop throughout their school years just by replacing any part of it when it fails or becomes outdated. 2) Raghulan Gowthaman – Started Element Four Technologies in 2008 (renamed - Zcodia Technologies in 2013) specialising in software development projects and products. He currently employs 43 permanent staff and over 20 contractors and freelancers. The company is launching 4 new products and 13 software applications in 2017. Raghulan holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, an MBA, and has several other qualifications: Cert IV TAA, ITIL Certified Expert, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. 3) Shobha Jayamohan – Speech Pathologist who manages Silver Lining Speech Pathology. She has been running her practise for last 2 years and is showing amazing growth and support from the local community. Shobha's other qualifications which add strength to her growing practice are: Certified Practising Speech Pathologist and a member of Speech Pathology Australia; Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Therapy certification;Professional development certification in Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Key Word Sign Language and Voice craft. She is also an accomplished teacher of South Indian classical music with a Teacher's Diploma.
SELECTION COMMITTEE Deva Mylvaganam – Director of Major Projects at United Group Limited. Civil Engineer, graduated from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, UK. He has 39 years in Infrastructure engineering and construction management including work experience in UK, USA, Nigeria, Australia, Papua New Guinea, SE Asia and Dubai. John Kennedy - President of United Indian Associations since 2014 and re-elected to the post for another two year term. Completed B.com in Madurai Kamaraj University and Chartered Accountancy at Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has a passion to serve and help the community and has held various post as Sports Secretary in the College, Vice Chairman of Southern India Chartered Accountants Students Associations. Moved to Sydney in the year 1998 and served as President of Sydney Tamil Manram and now serves as President of UIA. UIA is an umbrella body of 22 full member associations and 6 associate member’s associations. He has registered a charity in India as well as in Australia called Chris Vinmini Charity which supports disadvantaged children to study. He loves honesty and loves to support our community in many ways. He is happy to be of any assistance to people in need. Sanchayan Kulasegaram - Has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. He has worked in four countries in various roles - as a Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Project Manager, and Regional Sales Manager for Asia Pacific. After working for large global companies for over 25 years, he has ventured in to his own business, Team Four S. A boutique strategy management consulting firm that enables organisations to draft, implement and evaluate cross‐ functional decisions to achieve its long-term objectives; facilitates the process of specifying organisations' mission, vision and objectives, develops policies and plans in terms of projects and programs that are designed to achieve these objectives. He is also a broadcaster with SBS Radio. Shanta Goundar - Originally from Fiji and very much involved in the South Indian Community association called 'Then India Sanmarka Ikya Sangam'. She is a member of The Hindu Society of NSW and is currently involved in writing the History of the Sangam movement in Fiji, and in producing other Historic documents related to South India and Tamil literature showing that Tamil is among the most ancient languages in the world. Thiru Arumugam - Director/Principal Consultant at NIC Immigration Services. Thiru holds a Graduate Certificate in Migration Law & Practice from Australian National University. He is one of the most experienced figures in the migration field. He has extensive expertise in all areas of migration, in particular Family, Partner, Skilled, Business and Review Tribunal applications. He has specialized knowledge and successfully handles many skilled migration cases. Mr Arumugam is a prominent member of Australian Tamil Community and an active member of Indian Community Associations in Australia. He is a Founder Member and Former President of the Australian Tamil Association Inc. He has been actively involved in providing advice and guidance to newly arrived migrants and unemployed people in the community.
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