D. Shivakumar

Mr D. Shivakumar is currently working as the Group Executive president at Aditya Birla group for Strategy and Business development. He joined the ABG group in January 2018.

Prior to this, he was Chairman and CEO for PepsiCo for four years and before that with Nokia as CEO for India and later Emerging markets for nearly a decade. Mr Shivakumar has been a CEO for half his career and was one of the youngest CEOs in India in 2003. He worked in HUL for several years, mostly in marketing. He has worked with over 50 brands in his career and seen many business transformations.

Mr Shivakumar writes and regularly teaches on Innovation, leadership, Followership, Business Models, Digitization etc. across the leading business schools in the world.

He is a believer in giving back to society. He has been on the Board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad between 2012 and 2017. He was on the Godrej Consumer products Board between 2009 and 2017. He was the president of the All India management association in 2012-2013. He is currently the Chairman of the mobile marketing association and Vice-chairman of the Advertising standards council of India. He is currently on the board of XLRI.

Mr Shivakumar has been awarded many times in his career – Best CEO, Best brand builder, for leadership, for Turnaround etc. The awards most dear to him are the two distinguished Alumnus awards he got from IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta. He is one of twenty people in India to have distinguished alumnus awards from both IIT and IIM.