Kush Thyagarajan

About Kush Thyagarajan

Seasoned business leader with over two decades of global business partnering experience across Energy, Manufacturing, and Technology. Experience encompasses integrating AI into Industrial digital innovation, establishing OT & IT (Industrial) Digitalization capabilities, cross-functional leadership, Product Development & IP Commercialization and establishing enterprise platforms that unlock improved business outcomes and enhanced operational excellence. Ready to bring strategic insights and transformational impact to senior executive roles.Core Competencies:• Strategic Leadership: Provided thought leadership in industrial digitalization and transformational change management, including OT cybersecurity; drove execution excellence and built consensus and executive sponsorship for strategic initiatives.• Product Innovation: Led cross functional engineering, technology and IT teams to deliver enterprise scale outcomes, applying differentiated ML capabilities and application of open standards to improve operational performance and business value. Drove technology & IP Commercialization strategy, stakeholder (Business, Technology & IT) alignment, and disciplined financial stewardship across high impact portfolios. • Operational Excellence: Demonstrated leadership in strategy development for converged OT-IT Operations of the future to reduce Opex & optimize Capex. Co-led successful strategic Supplier transition and developed key IT capabilities in-house achieving cost reduction ~$12M/year & offset risk of sensitive IT Security capabilities with supplier. Specialties: Technology Management, IP/Product Commercialization, Machine Learning, OT-IT Convergence, Industrial Automation, Smart manufacturing, Software Engineering & Quality Assurance

Experience

1. Product Line Manager

   Shell

   Mar 2025 — Present

Education

• Indian School of Business

  Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology

• Mangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical & Electronics Enginnering

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Stakeholder Management
• Ms Project
• IT Systems Integration
• Software Project Management
• Software Quality Assurance
• Automation
• Team Management
• Management
• Project Planning
• Customer Engagement
• Client Engagement
• Integration
• Business Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Project Delivery
• Quality Assurance
• Instrumentation and Process Control
• Program Management
• Manufacturing
• Project Management
• Testing