Shah Karim
CEO, SafeRock
Innovation Fellow, Columbia Business School
Shah is the Chief Executive Officer of SafeRock and serves as advisory to Fortune 500 enterprises and investment groups in North America, Europe, and Asia on strategy, digital transformation, and M&A. Shah is an Innovation Fellow at Columbia Business School. He is a Co-Founder of the non-profit ‘Friends of Yale from Industry’, Emeritus of the Graduate School Advisory (GSAA) board at Yale and also Emeritus of the Alumni Board of Governors at Yale. He serves on the Industry and Corporate Engagement (I&CE) committee at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. He is on the Industry Advisory Board for Enterprise Systems at Penn State University, and the Dean’s Advisory Board at the University of North Texas. He is on the Board of Directors of the Chemical Marketing and Economics (CME) association serving industrial companies.
Shah speaks at global conferences and contributes to publications. He was interviewed by Forbes on Leadership and Culture. He was selected as a Thought Leader by IRI which represents multinational and government organizations. Shah has been a guest or keynote speaker on Leadership, Megatrends, and Value Creation at numerous international conferences including in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has authored articles in peer-reviewed and industry publications. He is recognized as a “Top 100 Industry Influencer” by Retail Digest.