S. Sivakumar (PRM 2) is the Chief Executive of the Agri Businesses Division of ITC Limited. This Rs 3500 Crore Division deals with a wide range of products from agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture and plantation crops.
Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Sivakumar served a farmers' cooperative in Gujarat for six years before joining ITC in 1989.
He has conceptualised the path-breaking eChoupal model and is spearheading its roll out across the country. With a vision to cover 100,000 villages by 2010, ITC eChoupal aims to increase incomes and improve the quality of life in rural India while delivering sustainable shareholder value.
ITC eChoupal has won several awards including UNDP’s World Business Award 2004, Wharton-Infosys Business Transformation Award & Development Gateway Award 2005 and Stockholm Challenge Award 2006. Sivakumar himself is also honoured with the World Technology Award in 2005. ITC eChoupal case study is taught in the business schools around the world.
Sivakumar is a Director on the Boards of NABARD, ITC Infotech India Ltd., Agrotech Foods Ltd., Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture, Centre for Collective Development, and Charities Aid Foundation India. He is on the Executive Committee of NCDEX. He is an active member of the management committees of various industry bodies and several taskforces of Government of India.