• Marketing / Public Relations - PR, advertising, production and printing of all school publications, cultivating media contacts
• KIS website
• KIS boutique
• Alumni relations - maintaining and nurturing connections with students, parents, staff and alumni, to ensure that they remain proactive stakeholders of the institution
• KIS Alumni directory
• KIS Alumni event registration
• KIS online donations
• KIS Mentorship program
• Maintaining two Alumni guesthouses
• Projects
• KIS fund-raising

Meet the Team:

Sonny has spent over 19 years in Brand Management & Integrated Communication, with advertising & communication experience working across borders, mostly in AsiaPac, while managing various global & regional brands.

Sonny's responsibilities at KISCO include leveraging KIS as a most prestigious international residential school, with the intent to strengthen the community of students, staff and other talent. Besides managing internal & external communications, Sonny will work closely with the KISCO team in developing & implementing KIS long term projects.
Sonny is married to Nandini and has two daughters, Neha in grade 5 and Sruti in grade 9.

Since my two daughters and I arrived in Kodai two months’ ago, I have hit the ground running at KIS… literally, with an Amazing Race staff retreat. The retreat carried a theme based on the following verse: “Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago, watch for the new thing I am going to do!  It is happening already, you can see it now.” Isaiah 43:18-19. This verse spoke to me on both a personal and professional level. I believe my journey to Kodai will be one of evolvement for myself and for the KIS Foundation office. My intention is to keep a positive and forward-looking approach to our fundraising efforts. 

In my role as Foundation Officer I have the pleasure of meeting with staff members to learn about the progress on KIS projects, such as Poondi, the KMU Restoration and Archive Project, Loch End Fitness Center, Highclerc Virtual Campus…. and so much more. These insights, suggestions and opinions give me a valuable overview which allows me to observe the progress of projects and keep you regularly informed of their status. Through each monthly newsletter I will inform the KIS community about our fundraising efforts and accomplishments, acknowledge the generosity of our donors and report on how we use the funds they give as their investment in KIS mission and vision. 

Prior to her move to Kodai she lived and worked in New Delhi where  she set up and led the India operations of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization. Alika spearhead the Asia launch of the "Tri Continental Film Festival" showcasing Human Rights cinema from Latin America, Africa and Asia.  In addition she attended a workshop on the impacts of climate change conducted by Al Gore in New Delhi.

While visiting Kodai last year she volunteered with the SoEx department and taught the students of grades 11 and 12 about the impact of climate change. Her experience at KIS convinced her to move to Kodai and become a part of the KIS community.

Alika received a Diploma in Human Rights Law in 2004 from the National Law School at Bangalore. Her thesis was "A Comparative Analysis of the Implementation of the Rights to Education, Health and Food in Sri Lanka and India as laid down by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights."

Alika received her Masters in German in 1982 from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi  where she researched and wrote on the Comparative Rights of Working Women in East and West Germany from 1914-1945.

Suvidha Sadasivan began her career with KISCO in January 2010. Before this, she worked as Technical Officer for the Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai. She did cataloguing, classification, indexing, providing training, helping research scholars and also organized and preserved collections using archival methods. She also assisted the Indus Research Centre of the Roja Muthiah Research Library. She has a total of twelve years of experience in this field.

She completed undergraduate in Computer Applications and a Masters in Library and Information Science at University of Madras, Chennai. She took a Diploma course in Advance Java Programming, E-Commerce and Web Designing in Liba Informatics Centre, Loyola College, Chennai and is a member of Madras Library Association (MALA). She speaks Malayalam, English, Tamil and Hindi.

As an archivist, her position involves appraising and describing records and preserving and making records available to patrons. She appreciates the opportunity to work with interesting people at KIS, who bring their knowledge and research experience to the archives. She says, “Archives are the collective memory, a repository for unique records of an organization, individual, or institution. Archivists look to the future to decide what part of the past is worth preserving.”

Listening to film music, watching world cinema, participating in cultural activities, friend networking and cooking are some of her interests.

Ramesh Hariharan returns to us at the KISCO office after a hiatus of three years, during which time he was the Principal Designate at Good Shepherd International School, Ooty and Curriculum / Teaching Quality Assurance Consultant for a group of seven schools based in Malaysia. Ramesh is an alumnus (Class of 1976) and has worked in various capacities at KIS for over 14 years, as ESL HoD, ESL teacher, IB Japanese Ab-Initio teacher, IB English teacher, Publications and AV Systems Manager, Alumni  Relations / Development Coordinator, KISCO Coordinator and now rejoins KIS as the Executive Director of the KIS Alumni Association.