Shiva Venkatraman

Education

• Master of Business Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
• Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Biography

Shiva is an Entrepreneurial Business Growth Leader, Board Member and Executive Advisor to boards, with experience in providing strategic direction in incubating and scaling technology/internet/telecom businesses from $0>$B. He also has non-profit Board Member experience. He is a startup mentor/coach and runs a venture growth consulting firm called Varidus in Singapore after spending 25 years in large firms like HPE, Microsoft, Fujitsu and smaller venture-backed technology startups. Shiva loves the aviation industry and spent his initial career in a think tank department of a leading Global Airline and consulted on Digital Transformation and Innovation with leading Asian Airlines. Shiva is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

As an adjunct faculty, Shiva has taught at many leading global universities and venture accelerators on topics like Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing, Leadership, Culture, Digital Transformation, Analytics and Information Systems.

Courses Taught

• CSCI 109 - Introduction to Computers and Applications
• MGMT 221 - Management Information Systems
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship