Shyam Karunakaran

President

Shyam is an accomplished healthcare industry veteran with a robust 26-year career spanning Payers, Providers, Pharma, Life Sciences, and health IT segments. As President, Shyam brings his extensive healthcare industry experience and deep expertise across payer technology, healthcare platforms, and digital transformation to the company's leadership.

Shyam joined CitiusTech in its startup phase and has been part of the company's leadership for over 16 years – first helping scale the company across its early markets, then building the Payer business from the ground up into one of the company's largest verticals, serving some of the nation's leading health plan organizations. He also heads the platform business, setting strategy and vision for PERFORM+, CitiusTech's proprietary AI-enabled clinical quality and value-based care platform and the company's flagship IP investment.

Shyam is a recognized voice in healthcare technology focused on Payer tech modernization, clinical quality, interoperability, and the intersection of AI and Payer technology. He regularly contributes to industry dialogue through conferences, webinars, and thought leadership.

Prior to CitiusTech, Shyam spent nearly a decade at Infosys. He holds a degree in biomedical engineering and lives in New Jersey with his wife and two rescue cats.

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