
Shiju is a technology leader with strong business acumen with two and half decades of vast experience in major operating tenets of driving digital transformation through thought leadership, innovation, analytics & delivering value to stakeholders. Shiju is currently working as Head – Information Technology for SBI Mutual Fund spearheading Technology strategies, enterprise-wide IT transformation, Software Engineering, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Technology Security Operations and Analytics Functions. Shiju comes with successful and steady career growth in reputed organizations such as CARE Ratings, Poonawalla Finance, IIFL Finance, TransUnion CIBIL, Fullerton India, PCS Technology, Gateway Terminals India, Wipro InfoTech, and Primus Telecommunications.
He is closely associated with Cyberdome, a public-private partnership initiative launched by the Kerala Police to combat cyber threats. Shiju is also actively associated with the Navi Mumbai Police, where he assists in cyber forensic investigations and contributes to awareness programs aimed at educating both the general public and police officers on cybersecurity and digital safety. Shiju is also associated with two engineering colleges as an Adjunct Professor, where he shares his subject knowledge and industry experience with aspiring engineering students.
Shiju holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Bangalore University, a Master’s in Information Management from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management (Mumbai University), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Hindustan University, Chennai. Shiju also holds a Diploma in Cyber Laws and Cyber Forensics from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.