Ts. Dr. Mathivannan Jaganathan currently a Senior Lecturer at School of Business Management, Universiti Utara Malaysia (Accredited by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International or AACSB). Prior to his current appointment, he has worked at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman as a lecturer of entrepreneurship for almost two years. He taught several entrepreneurship courses at various levels such as Electronic Commerce, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Franchise Business Management, Business Growth Management, Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Skills and Entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level.

Apart from teaching, he is actively involved in research covering the areas of Entrepreneurship (small business management, rural entrepreneurship) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (adoption, adaptation, acceptance, emerging technology and usage). He is also an active member of several international association and reviewer for some journals and international conferences. Currently, he served as a vice secretary of Internet Society (Chapter Malaysia).  He is also certified Lead Auditor/Auditor (ISO 9001:2015) by International Register of Certificated Auditors IRCA, UK and also trained Auditor for ISO 14001. In addition, he is also a Certified Advisor and Trainer of Mendeley Reference Manager and Certified e-Usahawan Trainer. He is also recognized Professional Technologist by Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT).

He was also recognized and awarded the Excellent Service Award 2011, Excellent Service Award 2015 and Excellent Service Award 2019 of Universiti Utara Malaysia. In addition, he is also a Favourite Website Award Winner (Personal Website Category), Malaysia Website Award 2018 by Exabytes Group. In line with the academic setting, he has personally conducted face-to-face, classroom training and consultation on LimeSurvey (online survey builder), Mendeley (Reference Management), Endnote (Reference Management), Weebly (Website Designing), WordPress (Web Content Management System), Blogger, Digital Marketing Online Tools and some relevant academic and non-academic related software system to his faculty members and students.