The founder member of Sivasri Trust, which operates Sikshana is Mr E S Ramamurthy. He has had a long and distinguished career in Industry, ending up as the CEO of a large Organization. Subsequently, he functioned as a Senior Adviser to the Govt. of India for a while, before opting to involve himself with socially productive causes on a full time basis.   

  Ms Meenakshi has been the driving force behind Mr Ramamurthy. She strongly believes that there is more in 'giving' than in 'acquiring', more so beyond a point in life. The Trust was started with her Funds at a time when she least afforded it.

  Mr Srivatsa Krishnaswami is a software professional with an M Tech from IIT Chennai. He presently holds a senior position in a major multi-national firm in Bangalore . With a passion for the cause of public education system, he is a strong motive force behind the Trust in all its programs.

  Ms Indira Sharma is a Post Graduate in Business Administration from the University of Mysore with awards from the State and the University for her performance. She is presently a Vice-President in a large reputed Company, responsible for marketing its products in a highly competitive environment. She has a strong parallel interest in primary education, to which she devotes considerable effort and time.

  Mr A Balamuralikrishna, the financial expert in the group, is a highly successful and competent Chartered Accountant, with extensive practice both in India and abroad. He has a personal interest in assisting social causes.

 Mr Ravindra Krishnappa, Director and Co-Founder of Inatech Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd. has been in the IT industry for more than two decades. He started with Tata Unisys after his Mechanical engineering degree and spent many years outside of the country in the US , UK and Switzerland . He left TUL in 1995 to help start a Business and Software consulting venture called EWI Business Consulting. Oracle Corporation acquired this company and renamed it as Oracle Solution Services in 1999. He left Oracle in Feb 2003 as the Executive Director of their offshore consulting division. His special professional interests include Business and strategy consulting, application of new technology and change management. He is a regular speaker at seminars and is also on the board of several companies in an advisory capacity. On a personal level, he has a passionate interest in the public education system.

Mr M Prabhakaran, had spent more than forty years in Industry, ending up in a Senior Management position in a public sector unit. He is an internationally recognized expert on Frequency Control Devices and Techniques. He has a deep and abiding personal interest in the field of public education. He has been instrumental in giving a shape to the entire program, right from the stage of its inception.

 Mr Prashanth Prakash has over 16 years of experience in information technology, Internet product development and consulting services. He started his full-time career at S3 Technologies a division of GSE systems. Working for them in various capacities he led a team that was responsible for building the next generation Case Tools for real-time simulations (GemCase). Prashanth has also widely consulted for various companies in the US before returning to Bangalore to setup NetKraft in 1998.

As Founder/CEO of NetKraft he helped define both the Vision and Strategic direction for NetKraft to establish it as one of the leading Offshore solutions company focusing on the Retail and HealthCare Verticals. In 2004, NetKraft had 400+ employees with offices in US, France, UK and Belgium , when it was acquired by Texas based Adea Systems. Previously, Prashanth secured two rounds of Venture Funding for NetKraft, from funds based both in Europe and US. For the past year Prashanth has focused on building Erasmic, an across board venture fund focused on early stage investing in India . He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of
Delaware , USA , and an Undergraduate degree, also in Computer Science, from the Bangalore Institute of Technology, India .

 Dr. V.A.Sastry, Director, RelQ holds an Electrical Engineering degree from REC Warangal and a PhD in Computer Applications from the University of Waterloo in Canada . In his 25 years of professional Software experience, Dr. Sastry has been responsible for the successful completion of a number of software projects of varying sizes in the field of Process Control and Simulation. Dr. Sastry has been associated with Tata Consulting Engineers and Macmet's Simulation system division. He has been credited with the achievement of obtaining an ISO 9001 / TickIT certification for Infosys Technologies Ltd, Bangalore where he was a Director on the Board responsible for Quality and Productivity. Dr. Sastry is a co-founder of RelQ and manages the Quality Processes implementation at RelQ. Dr. Sastry is also a Director at MUSA Software Engineering that does consulting on ISO & CMM for various large IT Companies. Dr. Sastry is a staunch believer in the statement that a Healthy Mind is a necessity for a healthy body. His mantra to ensure a healthy body and mind is by virtue of meditation and spiritual cleanliness.

Dr. Ashoka Gurudas is a physician by profession.  He completed his M.B.B.S. from J.N.M.C. Belgaum, Karnataka University in the year 1981.  Subsequent to which he acquired postgraduate specialisation as Doctor of Medicine (M.D.,) from Bangalore Medical College .   He worked as a lecturer in General Medicine at M.S.Ramaiah Medical College , Bangalore . He is also one of the Promoters of Bangalore Hospital, South End Circle , Bangalore , which is very well known for its Medical Facility for more than 15 years. In addition to his profession he was actively involved  in the family business of Horticulture, Farming and Real Estate for more than 20 years. Presently he is the Secretary of Basavanagudi Brahmo Samaj and one of the Trustees of Brahmo Samaj Appavu Pillai Girls School. He is the Managing Director of Niju Scribe a Medical Transcription Unit in Bangalore South.

  K. K. Subramaniam ("Subbu") is a post-graduate in computer science with a deep interest in designing elegant and reliable system software products. He has over two decades of experience in UNIX/Linux based software in the areas of real-time embedded kernels, device drivers and network stacks. He has held various R&D positions as designer, architect, development manager, and world-wide product manager and consulting engineer in multinational companies IBM, Novell, Oracle and Network Appliance. In 2005, he founded a company, Axcode Consulting, to focus on design consulting services in system software and network stacks that leverage FOSS developments. On a personal level, he has deep commitment to the cause of Education in the true sense of the term, and has been studying the subject extensively from academic and technical perspectives. 

  Mr V.R. Prasanna, has joined Sivasri Trust as the Program Director of Sikshana, an effort aimed at improving the quality of education in Government primary schools. The program now covers 50 schools and 10,000 children in the State. Prior to this, Mr Prasanna was the Director of Softrends, Inc. USA and has over 16 years of experience in the software industry. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University , College Station , Texas .

After spending over 16 years in the US , Mr Prasanna has returned back to India and now venturing into spending his energy and talent to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate here. In the years spent in US, he was involved with various NGO’s in different projects. In 2004 he got introduced to a Bangalore based NGO called Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled and has been working with them for their various projects. He cofounded Pragathi in Nov 2005 with a few like minded individuals in Austin and executed various projects in collaboration with Rotary, AID and Sikshana around Mysore and Bangalore .