Rajesh C. Muttath

Principal Knowledge Management Consultant
E-mail: rajesh@muttath.com

Rajesh assists our clients in the setting up and launch of their Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives. He undertakes diagnostic exercises including knowledge audit to determine the KM readiness of our clients’ organizations. Rajesh recommends long-term and immediate KM strategies, and assists in setting KM objectives and goals. He also helps our clients to design and implement appropriate KM activities.

Rajesh is one of the very few certified knowledge managers in the legal industry in the Region. He is a member of the Knowledge and Innovation Management Professional Society (KMPro) and International Knowledge Management Institute.

He has spoken and written extensively on KM. Some of his recent conference presentations/papers include Creating the Right Culture for Effective Information Management: Policies, Training & Trust, An Introduction to Knowledge Management, A Case for Outsourcing KM Activities, and Knowledge Management in Asian Legal Firms: the Challenges. He has also authored or co-authored numerous articles on various areas of law, particularly on arbitration, mediation and intellectual property.

Rajesh started his career in 1997 with Allen & Gledhill, a premier Singapore legal firm, where he practiced certain aspects of KM. In 2002, he joined Shearn Delamore & Co, one of the oldest and the largest legal firms in Malaysia, as their Chief Knowledge Officer. As the Chief Knowledge Officer, Rajesh was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the KM department. He left Shearn Delamore & Co. in 2005 to set up Muttath Knowledge Management Services, a business now operating in India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Rajesh has a first class degree in law from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, where he topped the 1996 class. He was an ODA scholar at Staffordshire University, United Kingdom, where he read Masters in International Business Law in 1997 and graduated with distinction. He has also received intensive training in arbitration and mediation.