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{{Short description|Indian philanthropist (1952–2015)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Leo Muthu
| native_name = லியோ முத்து
| office = Founder-Chairman of Sairam Institutions
| term = 1989 - 10 July 2015
| successor = Dr Sai Prakash Leo Muthu
| image = Leo Muthu @ Jothiprakasam.jpg
| birth_date = 2 April 1952
| birth_place = [[Thiruthuraipoondi]], [[Thanjavur]] Dist, [[Madras State]], [[India]] (now [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]])
| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| death_date = 10 July 2015 (aged 63)
| spouse = Tmt. Kalaiselvi Jothiprakasam (m. 1978)
| children = Tmt. Sharmila J Rajaa (b.1980) <br> Dr. Sai Prakash Leo Muthu (b.1983)
| birth_name = M. Jothiprakasam <br> (K. G. M. Jothiprakasam)
| relations = [[T. R. Baalu]] (in-laws) <br> [[T. R. B. Rajaa]] (son-in-law)
| occupation = [[Philanthropy|Philanthropist]], [[Businessman]], [[Educationist]]
| office2 = Managing Partner of Leo Group of Companies
| term2 = 1973 - 10 July 2015
| successor2 = Kalaiselvi Jothiprakasam
}}

'''M. Jothiprakasam''' (2 April 1952 – 10 July 2015),<ref name="newstoday">{{cite web|url=http://newstodaynet.com/chennai/leo-muthu-laid-rest|title=Leo Muthu laid to rest|publisher=News Today media|date=11 July 2015|accessdate=16 July 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716025220/http://newstodaynet.com/chennai/leo-muthu-laid-rest|archivedate=16 July 2015}}</ref> better known as '''Leo Muthu''', was an Indian philanthropist, educationist and businessman. He was the Founder-Chairman of the ''"Sairam Institutions"'', which operates many secondary and tertiary educational institutions. His official name is MJF.Ln.Leo Muthu.

==Early life==
Leo Muthu was born in 1952 in [[Thiruthuraipoondi]] Village, [[Thiruvarur]] District, [[Tamil Nadu]] to KG Manickam-Nagalakshmi. He started his career in real estate in 1972.<ref name="newstoday"/>

==Promotion of education==
Leo Muthu founded educational trusts<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/About.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions |access-date=21 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823085618/http://www.sairamgroup.in/About.html |archive-date=23 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> that serve the cause of providing quality education to the learner community. The group of colleges under the trusts offers education across technical, management studies, research, shipping science, [[alternative medicine]] streams and more. About 25,000 students are being given the benefit of education per year through the group's schools and colleges.

*'''Sapthagiri Educational Trust'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://sairamgroup.in/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Sairam Institutions |language=en-US}}</ref> runs the following institutions in [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]:
**Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, [[Chennai]]
**Sri Sairam Institute of Management Studies, [[Chennai]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://sims.sairam.edu.in/ |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Sairam Institute of Management Studies |language=en-US}}</ref>
**Sri Sairam Institute of Computer Applications, [[Chennai]]<ref name=":0" />
**Sri Sairam Institute of Technology, [[Chennai]]
**Sri Sairam Siddha Medical College and Research Centre, [[Chennai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/Siddha-Medical.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sri Sai Ram Siddha Medical College |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514032803/http://www.sairamgroup.in/Siddha-Medical.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sri Sairam Ayurveda Medical College and Research Centre, [[Chennai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/Ayurveda-Medical.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sri Sai Ram Ayurveda Medical College |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424020153/http://www.sairamgroup.in/ayurveda-medical.html |archive-date=24 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sri Sairam Homoeopathy Medical College and Research Centre, [[Chennai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/Homoeo-Medical.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sri Sai Ram Homoeopathy Medical College |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514033014/http://www.sairamgroup.in/Homoeo-Medical.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sai Ram Advanced Centre for Research, [[Chennai]].
**Sai Ram Matriculation Hr.School, [[Goripalayam, Madurai|Goripalayam]], [[Madurai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/SairamMatric_Madurai.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sai Ram Matriculation School |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093637/http://www.sairamgroup.in/SairamMatric_Madurai.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sai Ram Polytechnic College, Eliyarpathy, [[Madurai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/SaiJothiPolytechnic_Madurai.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sai Jothi Polytechnic College Madurai |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622202506/http://www.sairamgroup.in/SaiJothiPolytechnic_Madurai.html |archive-date=22 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sri Sairam College of Education, [[Puducherry (city)|Puducherry]]
**Sai Ram Matriculation school, [[Thiruvarur]]
**Sai Ram Vidyalaya, Madipakkam, [[Chennai]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/SaiVidhyala_Madipak.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093635/http://www.sairamgroup.in/SaiVidhyala_Madipak.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sai Ram Vidyalaya, [[Puducherry (city)|Puducherry]]
*Institutions run by '''Leo Muthu Educational Trust''' include:
**Sri Sai Ram Polytechnic College, Sai Leo Nagar, [[West Tambaram|West Tambaram, Chennai]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sri Sairam Polytechnic College Chennai |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/sairampolytechnic_chennai.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825084936/http://www.sairamgroup.in/sairampolytechnic_chennai.html |archive-date=2015-08-25 |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=Sairam Institutions}}</ref>
**Sai Matriculation Higher Secondary School, [[Madipakkam, Chennai]]
**Sai Ram Matriculation Hr.School, Sai Leo Nagar, [[West Tambaram|West Tambaram, Chennai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/SairamSchool_Tam.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093639/http://www.sairamgroup.in/SairamSchool_Tam.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sai Ram Matriculation Hr. School, [[Thiruthuraipoondi]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sairamgroup.in/SairamSchool_Tp.html |title=Sai Ram Group of Institutions | Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology |access-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514032354/http://www.sairamgroup.in/SairamSchool_Tp.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**Sairam Leo Muthu Public School, [[Medavakkam|Medavakkam, Chennai]]
*The institutions run under '''Sapthagiri Educational and Charitable Trust''' are the following:
**[[Sri Sairam College of Engineering]], formerly Shirdi Sai Engineering College, [[Anekal]], [[Bangalore]].
**Shirdi Sai Pre University college, [[Anekal]], [[Bangalore]].

==Business==
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Leo Muthu was the Managing Partner of Leo Real Estates and Managing Director of Leo Housing (P) Ltd.,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leohousing.in/profile.html|title = Welcome to Sai Leo Housing (P) Ltd}}</ref> in [[Chennai]]. In his housing business, he introduced 75+ housing schemes and industrial complexes in and around the suburbs of [[Chennai]], [[Madurai]], [[Hosur]] and [[Bangalore]]. For his innovative real estate and construction ventures, Leo Muthu was awarded the “Best Real Estate Promoter Award” by the former Governor of [[Tamil Nadu]], Shri B. N. Singh.

Leo Muthu was also the Managing Director of Super Fibre Glass (P) Ltd., a SSI manufacturing unit of Fibre Glass Sleeves and Chords, at Chennai which is a supplier to Lucas TVS, English Electric Co., and Kirloskar Co., among others. He also ran Sri Sai Raj Printers, a printing company, Super Sea Food Products Pvt. Ltd, Tuticorin, a fish products company, and Sai Jothi Quarry, Chennai, which is engaged in quarrying stones.

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[[Category:Indian industrialists]]
[[Category:People from Tiruvallur district]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian philanthropists]]

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