Lt Colonel Dr John Jacob Attumalil
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Lt
Col Dr John Jacob Attumalil (Retd) did his schooling from St Johns High School,
Mattom Mavelikara and Pre-Degree from Bishop Moore College. Later, he did his graduation in Civil
Engineering from “Regional Engineering College (REC)” Nagpur, now known as "Visvesvaraya
National Institute of Technology" (NIT). After running own construction
company for three years at Mavelikara, he joined Indian Military Academy (IMA)
for training and then got commissioned as an officer in the "Corps of
Engineers". He took voluntarily retirement
from Indian Army after twenty-two years of service at various levels.
Later,
he served in "Indus Towers" (Delhi, Mumbai), the world's largest
mobile tower operation company as Head of HR & Operations. He then served
for six and a half years as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Kerala's
leading educational group "Saintgits Group of Institutions"
(Engineering, Management, MCA, and Arts College) at Pathamuttom, Kottayam.
Besides
his Degree in Engineering, he has taken an “Executive Business Management” from
IIM Bangalore. He also hold three master's degrees in Personnel Management,
Applied Psychology and Counselling Psychology, and holds a Honorary Doctorate
in Management & Administration. He
has number of certifications too to his credit.
He
is member of number of professional bodies, such as Kerala Management
Association (KMA), National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM),
Institution of Engineers (IE), Computer Society of India (CSI), Standards
Institute of Engineers (SIE), Indian Society for Training and Development
(ISTD), United Services Institution of India (USI) and Indian Society for
Technical Education (ISTE). He was also the former President of a Psychology forum
"V4Mente".
He is an active member of two Charitable Trusts
and also an active member of the Award
Committee of “Marthoma Sabha at Thiruvalla for Merit Award which is being given to
scientists who had given outstanding service in the area of science and
technology.
Lt
Col Dr John Jacob Attumalil is a regular writer and contributor in "Dailyhunt",
an online news aggregator and has over a million followers. He is also the
current President of YMCA Mavelikara.
