Dr. Mathew is a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and has 18 years of corporate work experience in Indian and multinational companies such as HCL Ltd, MECON, Yonex, and Reebok, his last held corporate position being VP (Sales & Marketing) at an Indo-US joint venture of the Hero Group. In addition, he has 16 years academic teaching experience as a Professor in Marketing and 2 years as Principal and Head of the Institution at Great Lakes, Gurgaon.

Dr. Mathew’s core areas of corporate experience were in sales, product and brand management, vendor development, retail operations and marketing. In academics he teaches Marketing Management, Product and Brand Management, Sales & Distribution Management and Services Marketing to post graduate management students and working executives.

As a corporate trainer, Dr. Mathew has conducted Executive Development Programs (EDPs) and Management Development Programs (MDPs) for Hero Motocorp, Nokia Siemens Networks, PHDCCI, IIFT, Women and Child Welfare Department - Govt of Delhi; Somany Ceramics, among others.

He has authored research articles in international ABDC A and B category journals, popular thought articles in the top Indian media outlets such as Financial Express, Forbes, Business Standard, The Economic Times and The Hindu.

Dr. Mathew has published 14 case studies with Ivey Publishing (Canada), ECCH (Europe), IMD Lausanne (Switzerland), and CII (India). He is the recipient of the 2016 ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition Marketing Category Winner award and the John Molson School of Business, Canada’s International Case Writing Competition 2020 award winner. His 2016 case study continues to be a bestseller at Ivey Publishing (Canada) even after 10 years.

He is also on the advisory and editorial boards of academic journals and is a member of the Research Development Council of IIFT (New Delhi), Amity University (NOIDA, U.P.), Nirma University (Gujarat).

Dr. Mathew has authored “The Leadership Essentials – A Practical Workbook for Success” and his second book titled “The Sales Manager’s Essentials – A Practical Workbook for Success”.

In his immediate past position, Dr Mathew led Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, since July 2024. Under his leadership, the school has became a double crown B school with AACSB and AMBA accreditations, NBA accreditation and NIRF Top 50 ranked school.