K Y Iyer is Vice President, IT Advisory at Valueonshore Advisors, with over 30 years of experience in IT assurance, IT security, cybersecurity, strategy, infrastructure modernization and digital transformation.

He holds CISA, CISM, and CDPSE certifications from ISACA and a Diploma in Cyber Law.

As EVP & Head of Technology at Times Network, he managed broadcast IT at scale – overseeing hundreds of gigabytes of daily data and multiple petabytes of legacy content. He delivered significant annual operating savings through process redesign, further efficiencies via AI-based automation, and pioneered a world-first IP-based master control architecture that meaningfully reduced CAPEX on a large-scale infrastructure project.

Prior to this, as CIO at NDTV, he delivered over three hundred ERP-integrated business applications and drove a virtualization programme that reduced infrastructure costs by nearly ninety percent, generating substantial savings over a decade. Across both roles, his initiatives have cumulatively delivered over ₹100 crore in savings.

He has led large teams in mission-critical 24×7 environments and is a certified ISACA trainer currently contributing to AI-based educational support systems.