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Speaker Detail

Shiv Shivakumar

Operating Partner at Advent International, Gurgaon |Non-Exec Chairman, BOD – BKC India | Advisory Board-Multiples Equity | BOG -IIMU; Board Member-XLRI + XIMB | Ex Chairman & CEO – PepsiCo India | Ex CEO, EM - Nokia

Education : IIT Madras, IIM Calcutta Wharton School, USA

Shiv is an engineer from IIT madras and followed it up with management courses in IIM Calcutta and The Wharton Business School. Shiv is a distinguished alumnus from both IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta. He has received many awards for leadership, turnaround, transformation, brand building, HR practices etc. He was awarded the KPMG- AIMA award for Outstanding leadership, he was awarded the Asian Association of Management organisations Asia leadership award.

Shiv worked in marquee companies like Hindustan Lever, Nokia, PepsiCo, and Aditya Birla Group. Shiv was one of the youngest CEOs of India and is now the Operating Partner at Advent International, a global Private Equity firm.

Shiv has led many brands, he has worked with over 60 brands in his career and has led many business transformations.

Shiv believes in giving back to society and has been on the board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad, XLRI, XIMB, IIM Udaipur. He served on the board of Godrej Consumer products for 8 years and is currently the non – executive Chairman of the Burger King Board. He is also on the customer advisory council for Facebook/Meta

Shiv was the President of the All India management association(AIMA) in 2012 – 13, he was the Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA)from 2014 to 2019. He was the Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) 2018 – 2019.

Shiv has given the more than 25 convocation and commencement speeches in Business Schools across India over the last ten years- IIM Kozhikode, IIM Trichy, IIM Nagpur, SP Jain, IIM Rohtak, IIM Indore etc to name a few.

He writes regularly for the business press, teaches regularly at the premier business schools and is a favoured speaker for corporate events.

Shiv has written three books:

1. Reflections - a collection of Shivs articles
2. The Right Choice - Resolving Ten career dilemmas.
3. The Art of Management

The Right Choice and The Art of Management are business bestsellers.

He will be sharing his experiences at CIMCON 2024 on

THE ART OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

The whole discipline of career management now has three elements to it: –

  • Managing Yourself
  • Managing Your Team
  • Managing your Business / Organization

 

This Leadership sequence in the right order- Leading Self, Leading Team, and Leading business enables faster outcomes. Some of Mr Shiv’s guidelines about maximizing throughout through deadtime, managing matrix organizations, managing peer groups, and elevating sub-optimal people’s performance are phenomenal takeaways for the participants. Mr Shiv is a treasure of knowledge and experience and is doing a priceless contribution to the community by sharing his lifelong learning.