G.Krishna Kumar, M.D, F.R.C.P.c, F.A.C.G, F.A.C.P. Temple Founder, President & spiritual director Dr. Krishna Kumar, the temple founder, has been a staff member of William Beaumont Hospital since 1970. He is also an adjunct associate professor of medicine at Wayne State University College of Medicine. Dr. Kumar has published many articles in leading medical journals.

During a deep meditative Kundalini experience Dr. G. Krishna Kumar had a vision of the Divine Mother, Devi Parashakthi Karumariamman, who directed him to build a temple for "Her," so that Her children can visit Her "house" and feel "Her" energy and receive divine blessings and grace. Dr. G. Krishna Kumar then devoted all his activities and life around this vision from the Mother (Devi Sri Parashakthi).

With the blessings for Divine Mother and Lord Ganesha, Dr Krishna Kumar was initiated by Pujyashree Sri Swarna Venakteshwara Deekshithar of Chidambaram Nataraja Temple in various mantra, yantra and tantra prayoga shastras. Dr Krishna Kumar has been performing these rituals for the benefit of the temple and its devotees. This temple is designed by Divine Mother for the benefit of entire humanity and for world protection from the effects of Kali yuga

With Her Divine guidance and his own meditative abilities, he has been guiding this project as the founding member and President of the Parashakthi Temple. He has contributed major portion of the funds and has donated millions of dollars, much of it is from personal borrowing from the bank.

He has devoted a great deal of his time and indeed some of us who have been closely working with him have seen his ability as a leader and visionary, with absolute dedication to the monumental task he has undertaken. Before this divine experience, Dr Krishna Kumar was carrying on his philanthropic activities in India and in United States quietly. A number of families who are present even at the temple know of his generosity and help in that direction. Indeed, Dr Krishna Kumar is our leader in the community.

Recognizing his new role after the deep meditative experience, he wanted to strengthen our organization at the national level even further. To strengthen our organization and community he has met with numerous leaders in the community. He was invited to Washington in Oct 2001 for further discussion and to meet with other senators and Governors He has developed relationship with the Michigan Governor and Mayor of the Pontiac City and this has helped our congregation's goals. This certainly has given strength to our organization. Our organization's goals are indeed dear to our community at the spiritual and economic level.

The devotees of the Parashakthi Temple are all grateful to such a divine messenger who has indeed made it possible, for us to gather and celebrate many holy festivities in the presence of the Divine Mother. In spite of his duties as a physician, as a leader at the temple, and devoting numerous hours to the temple activities, he continues to have his deep Kundalini meditation practice everyday, which has enhanced his mystical abilities. Many devotees of our congregation have experienced numerous miraculous events at our Temple and receive divine grace and blessings from our Divine Mother Parashakthi who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent and the embodiment of divine love and compassion. Dr. Krishna Kumar is a seer, a mystic, a theosophist, a philosopher, a philanthropist and a highly evolved soul to whom all the devotees of the Temple are very thankful.

Dr. Krishna Kumar is Temple Founder, Patron, President and spiritual director. *

DR. K. Thavaraja M.D., Executive Vice - President Dr. Thavaraja, was born in a village near Jaffna, Sri Lanka. His family was very involved in Temple activities in Sri Lanka and his father was a Trustee of the local village Temple. After his medical education in Sri Lanka, Dr. Thavaraja trained as a nephrologist and is an attending physician specializing in kidney diseases at the Oakwood Hospital system in Dearborn. He is married with four children, of whom two are physicians and two are lawyers. He is well known in the Sri Lankan Tamil community and is a strong supporter and devotee of the Parashakthi Temple.

Dr. Thavaraja is a major contributor for the Rajagopuram construction and the current ongoing renovation of our Mothers Abode. He is Temple Benefactor and Sustaining Life Member.*

Chandrachoodan Narayanan, Executive Vice - President

• BSc - University of Kerala.
• Diploma in Occupational Therapy, Medical College - Nagpur.
• Diploma in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Bombay.
• MS (OT) University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• Married to Jaya K. Madhavan MD
• Chief Occupational Therapist, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala
• Teaching Assistant - University of Alberta, Edmontona, Canada
• Senior O.T. - Windsor Western Hospital, Windsor, Canada
• Chairperson - Allied Health Services, TISD, Caro, Michigan
• Board Member - Community Health Center, Caro, Michigan
• Regional Manager (Midwest Region USA) - Rehabilitation Management, Inc.
• President, OT - PT Association, Kerala.
• Member, MOTA, AOTA. USA
• Treasurer, Kerala Club. Michigan
• President, Kerala Club. Michigan
• President, Kerala Hindu Association of Michigan
• Vice-President, Federation of Kerala Associations in North America
• Very active in Temple activities for more than10 years.

Hare Krishna Patnaik Mr. Patnaik has been in Detroit since 1976 and been involved with Bharatiya Temple since 1986 in various capacities starting from Janitorial/cleaning committee to chairperson of Bharatiya Temple in 1998. He was chairman of education committee, audiovisual committee, inventory committee, nomination committee, religious committee and Board of trustees. He has been instrumental in bringing Lord Jagannath to Bharatiya Temple and Parashakhti Temple and started Ratha Yatra in Detroit area since 1995.In 1986 during President Reagan's second term, he was the only small business owner invited to White House War room for recognition. He has been also involved in raising funds for the Orissa Cyclone, Gujrat Earthquake in 1999 and various other humanitarian activities as eye camp and health camps in Adivasi villages in Orissa. He also conducted the largest eye camp with 22 VOSH doctors from US and 14000 patients in Machhlipatnam in super cycle in South India. He conducted the last eye camp in Kushma , Nepal in 2011. He also volunteers in cooking for the needy at the Pontiac Soup kitchen. He has volunteered at Habitat for Humanity in building house for the poor. On the professional side he is a professional engineer and runs a consulting company HP Microsystems in designing electronics for the big three automotive companies for future cars. He is married to Chinmayee and has two lovely sons Gautam and Siddhartha. He is also involved in professional organizations as ASEI, MMBDC, VOSH (volunteer optometrist service to Humanity).

Kristen Keskey, M.D., F.A.C.P. A dedicated physician, Dr. Keskey has a deep love and passion for her connection to Divine Mother. She has been blessed to be in India many times visiting Mother Meenakshi and other temples. Many years ago Divine Mother appeared to her, and with the help of Dr. Kumar she was able to find out it was our own Parashakthi Karumariamman. Dr. Keskey is a disciple of Guruji Pujya Shree Swarna Venkateshwara Deekshithar and she has spent lot of time with Guruji travelling to various temples in India and Guruji inducted her into prayoga shastras. Under the guidance of Divine Mother Dr Keskey along with Dr. Krishna Kumar visited various mystical temples in India and performed various parikarams. She was privileged to be a founder, supporter and sustainer of beautiful Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac Michigan. She feels blessed to be able to do this so you also can receive all the Grace she has throughout her life.

Dr. Keskey is a Temple Benefactor and Sustaining Life Member.*

Robert Shaw, Ph. D. Dr. Robert Shaw had been seeking a satisfying spiritual path since his early twenties. At that time, he came into contact with a Satguru from northern India with whom he studied and practiced for several years until that teacher left his physical body. He then searched and found another until that teacher also passed. After that he studied with several more learned individuals until he met Dr. Krishna Kumar in the 1980's.After such time and ultimately, as a result of that relationship, he became interested in Hinduism and mysticism, in particular. In the early 1990's, a small group of individuals in which Dr. Shaw was included were gathered by Dr. Kumar to develop a spiritual center to be located in southeastern Michigan. That center eventually manifested as Mother's Parashakthi Temple, where Dr. Shaw's spiritual efforts have been directed ever since. Under the guidance of Divine Mother, Dr Shaw along with Dr. Keskey and Dr. Krishna Kumar visited various mystical temples in India and performed various parikarams

Outside of his temple affiliation, Dr. Shaw is married for over 40 years and has four children. He has been a practicing clinical psychologist for over 35 years.

Dr. Shaw is a Temple Benefactor and Sustaining Life Member. *

Nagappan Sekkappan, Sr. Vice - President
M.S, Mechanical Engineering WSU, MBA UFM Ross School of Business Nagappan was born in a village at Chettinadu in Tamil Nadu, India where the community is well known for religious activities and community education. Nagappan is been a volunteer at Shri Parashakthi Karumarriamman Temple since 2000 and has contributed dedicated service and monetary contributions. Nagappan is a staunch devotee of Mother and guided by Dr. Kumar. He is a devotee who has felt Shri Meenakshi Amman's & Karthikeya's grace. He leads all temple volunteer committees and temple programs. He is well known in Professional Engineering and Indian Communities.

Nagappan is a Trustee in Shri Karthikeya Temple Muar, Malaysia and in Shri Ganesha Temple in Virachillai, Chettinadu, India

On Professional side, Nagappan has M.S in Mechanical Engineering from WSU and MBA from UFM, Ross School of Business. Currently, he is a Program Management Executive at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and has led many Jeep Programs to launch.

Nagappan is married to Dr.Vijayalakshmi and has two lovely boys Karthik & Arun.

Nagappan Sekkappan is a Temple Benefactor and Sustaining Life Member.*

Vernon Johnson, J.D. Mr. Johnson graduated from Kalamazoo College where he was an All-American tennis player. He received his Juris (Doctorate) Degree from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1986. He was recently named a partner at Feiger, Feiger, Kenney and Johnson, P.C., a nationally recognized law firm. He is an ardent devotee of Parashakthi and has donated substantial sums for Temple construction.

Mr. Johnson is a Temple Benefactor and Sustaining Life Member. *

Vikram Ganesan Vikram was born and raised in Mumbai, India and has lived in the US since 1997. As a hands-on leader in engineering and manufacturing operations, he has led teams of up to 4000 and revenues of up to $4 billion in diverse industries spanning automotive, defense, telecommunications, medical devices and mining & metals. He has three degrees in engineering and one in business.

He is a devotee of the Divine Mother and Hanuman, and has had several Divine experiences originating from the Temple since 2005. He lives in Troy and has two kids - a boy and a girl, and a 3-year old beagador hound.

Vikram is a Temple Benefactor *

Kishen Kavikondala Kishen Kavikondala has master's in engineering and a Master's in Business from Purdue University. He has extensive experience in the managing operations for MNC’s in engineering & manufacturing industries in US and Asia. Mr. Kavikondala has a strong entrepreneurial record of accomplishment for the past two decades. He currents manages companies with presence in Engineering and Manufacturing. He actively works with startups around the world focusing on leveraging advancements in Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning in Manufacturing and supply chain space. He is a venture partner in Dallas Venture Capital a venture fund investing in tech start ups in US and India. Kishen also runs a non-profit called Planting Champion Trees which focuses on preserving and propagating the gene of age old trees that have been on this planet for thousands of years.

Kishen is a Temple Benefactor *

Kannan Ramaiah, Vice President Kannan was born in Madurai, India. His family was very involved in Temple activities in Madurai. Kannan has been a devotee since 1999 and then became a volunteer of our Temple in 2009. He feels honored to be associated with the Temple and feels it is a great privilege given by Divine Mother to serve her at our Temple. Kannan is well known in the IT Services Industry and the Tamil community. He served various roles in Michigan Tamil Sangam and is currently the CFO on the Board.

Kannan is a professional with a background in Electronic Engineering and an MBA degree from India. Currently, he is a Senior Director at DXC Technology, oversees and leads various aspects of the application services division within DXC Technology, which involves managing teams, delivering solutions, and driving business growth.

Kannan is married to Visalakshi and is blessed with a daughter Meenakshi and a son Ramu.

Kannan Ramaiah is a Temple Benefactor and Sustaining Life Member.*

Office Bearer
Siva Srinivasan, Treasurer & Secretary Siva Srinivasan has been a volunteer of our Temple since 2009. By profession, he holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and works in the field of Computer aided engineering, Finite Element analysis, which is widely used in the automotive and aerospace industry. He is a devotee of Divine Mother and feels honored to be associated with the Temple and feels it is great privilege given by Divine Mother to be able to do service at our temple

Mr. Siva Srinivasan is a Temple Benefactor *

Former Board Members:
A.N.K Swamy

Frank Stella Entrepreneur, supporter of education, healthcare, business, community and church leader are all terms that could easily describe Frank D. Stella. He is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The F.D. Stella Products Company, Detroit, designers and distributors of food service and dining equipment. The company was founded in 1946, and today leads a network of affiliates serving markets in Michigan and throughout the US. Frank is also Chairman and CEO of Stella International, New York, a consulting, joint venture and importing firm, and a member of the Board of Directors of Metropolitan Realty Corp. An alumnus of the University of Detroit College of Commerce and Finance, Frank has devoted his life to the betterment of others. His biography reads like an encyclopedia of achievements, awards and honors earned in serving the greater good.

Mr. Stella has served as a Board Member for many medical and educational institutions including the University of Detroit / Mercy, Wayne Community College Foundation, Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, Detroit Round Table, Detroit Urban League, Rehabilitation Institute Center for Independent Living, Vice Chairman of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan and Vice Chairman of Grace Hospital, Detroit.

Frank has held seats on the boards of numerous civic, business and educational organizations and received numerous awards and honors for his commitment and dedication. His political achievements include numerous awards within the National Republican Committee, Michigan Finance Republican Committee, national Republican Heritage Groups Council and national, state and local Republican Committees as well as being an appointee of four Presidents, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush as well as Governors William Milliken, James J. Blanchard, and John M. Engler, and Mayor Coleman A. Young.

Business organizations benefiting from Frank's involvement include the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, Chairman of Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, New Detroit, Inc., Economic Alliance for Michigan, The Economic Growth Corporation, Economic Club of Detroit, Chairman of the City of Detroit Income Tax Board of Review, National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Chairman of The National Italian American Foundation of Washington, DC, Chairman of Save orchestra Hall and Board Member and Vice Chairman of Detroit Symphony Orchestra hall, and Michigan Opera Theatre.

He was decorated by the Government of Italy three times and received its highest decoration "Grande Ufficiale", and was awarded a doctorate in business by the Gentium Pacem University in Rome and Clearly College, was awarded the seal of the University of Bologna by its Rector, member of the Board of Advisors of John Hopkins University Bologna Center, and Board Gregorian University of Rome Foundation. Selected by Detroit, Michigan as Michiganian of the Year 1997. The 1995 recipient of the George W. Romney Award for Lifetime Achievement in Volunteerism - because of his exceptional philanthropic leadership. Knights of Charity Award by PIME Missionaries U.S.A for person to person charities, October 1997, Awarded Executive of the Year by the Detroit Executive Association, November 1998. Received the State of Israel Bonds -State of Israel Independence Issue Award Temple Beth El, West Bloomfield, MI, and October 1998. He was drafted as a private in World War II, and was honorably discharged as a Major in the Army Air Force. He is listed in Who's Who in America the World and in the Midwest, Men of Achievements, Community Leaders of America and the Michigan Social Register.