Career
Jayam is retired from his shipping business and currently involved as a film critic and journalist. Jayam immigrated to Southern California in 1963. Jayam founded the (SLAASC) in 1973 to serve the Sri Lankan community in Southern California.
Jayam started SLAASC with seven other Sri Lankans when there were only about 1,000 Sri Lankan immigrants in the Southern California, though the number has risen to 65,000 in 2010.
Jayam was instrumental to keep all Sri Lankan expatriates together in Southern California so that they had a place to go for social activity. He could be credited by helping people who did not have enough money to survive and made funeral arrangements for those who had nobody in Southern California by his SLAASC.
