Episode 154: Shishir Singh

Shishir Singh is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the BlackBerry Cybersecurity business. A seasoned senior executive, Shishir brings 15+ years of cybersecurity leadership. With his wealth of experience and expertise, Shishir works across the entire organization to set a clear vision roadmap for our next-generation cybersecurity products and services. He engages with our customer base on strategic direction, and identify key partnerships to implement a market-winning technical strategy and vision. Shishir is a passionate advocate for customer-centric design and the use of data and analytics to create compelling offerings that thrill customers.

Before BlackBerry, Shishir served as Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Enterprise Business Group at McAfee. In this role, he was responsible for product strategy, execution, and delivering cutting-edge cybersecurity offerings that protect Enterprise customers from threats to their applications, networks, data, devices, and other critical assets. During his tenure, he transformed the company into a true cloud company and pioneered the teams that delivered McAfee’s XDR, CNAPP, and SASE (Unified Cloud Edge) solutions in the industry. These products are offered in both on-premises and cloud form factors. They have a footprint across the entire gamut of industry segments, ranging from fledgling start-ups to established banks, Fortune 500 Enterprises, and federal institutions across the globe.

Shishir has also held various engineering, development, and product leadership positions at Cyphort (acquired by Juniper), Cisco, IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco), Bluecoat Systems (acquired by SYMC/Broadcom), and Silicon Graphics. At the onset of his career, Shishir worked for the Defense Research and Development Organization, (DRDO), a public service undertaking that develops advanced avionics systems for India’s vast defense sector. He was nominated for the Young Scientist of the Year award for his contribution to the indigenous AWACS project for India.

Shishir holds master’s degrees in Computer Science from Allahabad University and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Additionally, he has published and presented multiple academic papers for IEEE and holds several patents in the fields of Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, and behavior-based modeling for malware analysis. Apart from his boundless passion for his work, in his free time, Shishir enjoys keeping himself active. He loves hot yoga, playing squash, and hiking.