Kumaran is the Co-Founder and Deputy Chairman of 369 Global, a Canada-based group of companies with business interests in skills training and workforce development, media and communications, and global market facilitation. 369 Global’s portfolio includes Computek College, one of Canada’s longstanding career colleges and 3 Magazine, an international smart luxury media platform of which he is the Deputy Publisher.
Kumaran worked for the Government of Ontario for 15 years before joining 369 Global. As a public servant, he held progressively senior roles in several ministries including intergovernmental affairs, business development, stakeholder management, communications, policy and program advisory. His focus on innovation, program design, and values-based leadership earned him numerous awards from the Governments of Canada and Ontario.
Kumaran is an active community animator and has co-founded several initiatives to build long-term collective capacity deepening the multicultural mosaic of Canada. He is a Director of the Canada-India Business Council and previously served as a young adviser to the Institute for Canadian Citizenship.
Kumaran was named a 2018 DiverseCity Fellow by the CivicAction Leadership Foundation and the 2020 Established Professional of the Year by the Canadian Tamil Professionals Association for his community contributions. He graduated from the University of Toronto Scarborough with a degree in English Literature and Psychology and completed a graduate certificate in Strategic Public Management at the Schulich School of Business, York University.
Kumaran currently resides in Ontario with his partner, Tharshiga Elankeeran, and two children.
Since his university days, Kumaran has actively fundraised for several causes both within Canada and around the world. Over the past twenty years, Kumaran has harnessed his passion, work ethic, and networks to catalyse several initiatives, especially in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada and within the traditional Tamil homelands in Sri Lanka.
He now undertakes much of his philanthropy through the Selvayogam Foundation. Named after Kumaran’s maternal grandparents, Selvarajah Rasiah and Sivayogam Subramaniam, who helped raise him as a young boy, the Selvayogam Foundation has supported a number of education, healthcare, faith-based, and international development organisations.
I believe it’s time to challenge conventional notions on policies including education, development, immigration and expansion and to advocate a new approach for Canada on the world stage.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost
