Sri Lanka, July 1 -- Sri Lankan business leader K.R. Ravindran will assume the Chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of Chicago-based Rotary Foundation today

(July 1st).

A product of S. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia, Ravindran is the co-founder and CEO of Printcare PLC. In 2015, Ravindran became the first Sri Lankan and 11th Asian to have served as the global President of Rotary International, one of the worlds best known international non-profit organisations. Previously, Ravindran served it as Director and Treasurer.

In 2017, he was conferred with the Sri Lanka Sikhamani title by the Government of Sri Lanka. The Rotary Foundation is ranked by Charity Navigator, a well recognised evaluator of charities, as the best of Charities in the ...