About

Retirement Planning & Life Insurance

Started the journey in Insurance field on 22-Dec-2017 as an Advisor in ICICI Prudential. On 31-Mar-2025 released from ICICI Prudential to join HDFC Life.

On 01-Apr-2025, joined HDFC Life as Financial Consultant.

General Insurance

Joined HDFC ERGO General Insurance as Insurance Advisor on 03-Sep-2024. HDFC ERGO General Insurance covers segments such as Health Insurance, Private Car/Bike insurance, Travel Insurance, Home Insurance, Property Insurance and Marine Insurance.

Health Insurance

Started as Insurance Advisor in Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd. on 13-May-2020.

Digitization

Mathews Jacob started his journey in the digital world in 1987 when he was serving in the Indian Air Force. Six months prior to discharge from IAF, Mathews Jacob had undergone a pre-release course on Computer Programming in Indian Institute of Management and Technology, Chandigarh.

Mathews Jacob made his first computer program in dBase-III platform in 1993, for Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) at Rafha Airport, Saudi Arabia. This application was installed in all other Group-III regional airports- at Al-Jouf, Ar’ar, Al-Gouriyat, Al-Quisumah and Turaif. As time evolved, in 1996, the platform of the CMMS application was changed over to Microsoft Access. Eventually, SBG-O&M acquired IBM-MAXIMO as CMMS and Mathews Jacob became the System Analyst responsible for Implementation and Administration of the CMMS for all the Airports came under purview of the company’s maintenance contract.

Side by side, Mathews Jacob have specialised in Microsoft SQL Server and Visual Studio for application building. Graduated to oracle 12c. Created a number of database applications involving data analysis for the organizations he served and also for a handful of non-profit organisations as well. Data Mining, Data Acquisition, Data Conversion and Reports Generation are the strong areas.

Mathews Jacob created his first website way back in 2003. Since then, as a freelancer, Mathews Jacob has created a number of websites for various organizations. Mathews Jacob has been instrumental in fulfilling the aspirations of every organisation Mathews Jacob worked in going digital. Mastering HTML5 and CSS3 was an obsession. His specialization in Web Designing is websites based on data. As such, MySQL and PHP along with HTML and CSS is the combination Mathews Jacob uses extensively for developing Websites. Mathews Jacob is Equally comfortable with web designing using WordPress.

Digitization/Digitalization is the rule of the time. Those who refuse to embrace digitalization are eventually left out and overtaken by those who go digital. However, there are still a lot of individuals and organizations refusing to transform and they prefer to conduct their business in the conventional manner. Well, here again, it is his motto to bring out the change in them and help them to go digital.

Past Life

Date of Birth: 27-May-1953

Family

Father: Geevarghese Chacko, Padipurayil, Vadakkadathucavu, Adoor

Mother: Annamma Chacko, Kuttiyil Puthupparambil, Keerukuzhi, Thattayil

Spouse: Rosamma George

Son: Roobin Mathews, Dublin - Ireland
Daughter: Rooby Mathews, Teacher- St. Peter's UPS Kodumon

Schools/Colleges

Govt. UPS for Girls (1958-59 to 1963-64)
Govt. UPS (1963-64 to 1964-65)
Govt. High School for Boys, Adoor (1965-66 to 1967-1968)
NSS College Pandalam (1968-69 to 1969-1970)

MILESTONES

2013-2015

Maintenance Manager

Saudi Binladin Group- O&M, Hamad International Airport, Doha-Qatar

Maintenance Manager responsible for implementation of CMMS IBM-MAXIMO at Central Utility Plants, Cargo and ATC Projects of SBG-OM - Qatari Dier joint venture in HIA

2007-2013

Senior Manager

Bangalore International Airport Ltd.

Project Manager for implementation of SAP-Plant Maintenance Module.

From 2010 to 2013 headed Landside and Airside Services teams responsible for Housekeeping, Pest Control and Waste Management of entire airport including Terminal Building, Ancilliary Buildings, Runway, Taxiway and total Airside area and played critical role in achieving ASQ score.

1997-2007

System Analyst

Saudi Binladin Group- O&M, Jeddah

System Analyst responsible for Computerised Maintenance Management System in GACA Hq, Rabigh Airport, Yanbu Airport, Baha Airport, Taif Airport, Yanbu Airport, Hail Airport, Medinah Airport, Wedjh Airport and Tabouk Airport.

Quality Coordinator while Implementaion of Quality System

Quality Anchor responsible for evolving Quality/Process Manuals

Internal Quality Auditor