Shivakumar is currently the Group Executive president at Aditya Birla group for Strategy and Business development.

Prior to this, Shiv 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. Shiv has been a CEO for half his career and was one of the youngest CEOS in India. Shiv worked in HUL for a number of years, mostly in marketing. Shiv has worked with over 50 brands in his career and seen many business transformations.

Shiv writes and teaches regularly on Innovation, leadership, Followership, Business Models, Digitizationetc. across the leading business schools in the world.

Shiv 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 Chairman of the Advertising standards council of India. He is currently on the board of XLRI and IIM Udaipur.

Shiv has been awarded many times in his career – Best CEO, Best brand builder, for leadership, for Turnaround to name a few. He is one of twenty people in India to have distinguished alumnus awards from both IIT and IIM.