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Shiju Radhakrishnan is the founder and CEO of vocalley Conceptualised around mid-2020, vocalley came out as a new way for users to consume and react to the news around them based on what’s most-followed and trending among their network.

An Engineer and MBA by qualification, Shiju Radhakrishnan has worked on automation and ERP platforms like Oracle Supply Chain. He has more than a decade-long experience in technology, consulting and manufacturing. Shiju is an alumnus of SPJIMR, Mumbai & Virginia Tech, US.

In the past, he has co-founded iTraveller.com (2012-2020), a holiday marketplace based in India. By 2019, iTraveller was acquired by lastminute.com, as part of their entry into the Indian market. He served as the Director of India OTA business of lastminute.com, before moving out. Prior to iTraveller, he has worked in manufacturing supply chain & technology consulting at WIPRO, Ashok Leyland & Cognizant.

Early Life
Shiju was born on 29 February 1980, in Kochi, Kerala, to P Radhakrishnan Nair, a government employee and Santha Radhakrishnan, a home maker. He was the eldest child, and has a younger brother Liju Radhakrishnan, who's in the software industry currently. He did his primary schooling in Mary Matha Primary School, Kochi, Kerala and joined Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Neriamangalam and earned his AISSE (10th) and AISSCE (10 + 2) with distinction. He then joined Mar Athanasius College of Engineering to pursue a Bachelor of Technology degree in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

During his college years, he was the chairman of the college union for the year 2001-02 and received the twin honours of 'Best Outgoing Student, Engineering as well as the University gold medal in the field of Mechanical Engineering from the Mahatma Gandhi University for the year 2002. He then joined as senior planning engineer in Ashok Leyland.

2007 - 2012
After working in Ashok Leyland for four years, Shiju quit his job in order to pursue his master's degree in business administration from the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research. After earning his MBA, he did a summer internship in Hewlett Packard, after which he joined Cognizant as an associate consultant in the domain of supply chain management. After two years, he left to join Wipro as a consultant in the same domain.

2012 - 2020
Shiju, co-founded iTraveller.com, a holiday marketplace based in India. By 2019, iTraveller was acquired by lastminute.com, as part of their entry into the Indian market. He served as the Director of India OTA business of lastminute.com, before moving out. Prior to iTraveller, he has worked in manufacturing supply chain & technology consulting at WIPRO, Ashok Leyland & Cognizant.

2020 - vocalley
vocalley is a recently launched platform for users to consume and react to the most relevant news around them in a new way. It allows users to subscribe to the most trending news based on what everyone else is following. Most importantly, it allows users to record their reactions as short 30 seconds videos - called vocs and go public.

Interestingly, vocalley also started observing some emergent user behaviours. It helped a bunch of users who are vocal and eloquent to come out expressing their perspectives to the public - this is akin to creating a new generation of performers on TikTok when the talent based performances went democratised with such short video platforms.

Personal Life
He got married to Chitra Parija on 04 September 2008. They have two children Ananya & Aditya. Chitra is currently the part of the founding team at vocalley and is part of the Marketing team.