Kumar Shah

Kumar Shah is an independent advisor and consultant to private equity firms in the evaluation of mergers and acquisitions of specialty chemical companies. He serves/has served on the boards of non-profits (Pratham USA, Friends of Arts & Design, IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation, TiE New York) and for-profit companies (ICO Polymers (NASDAQ: ICO), TheraJect, Premium Molding).

Mr. Shah provided exclusive independent advisory services to Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, an institutional private equity fund (now Irving Place Capital). Mr. Shah was the Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Noveon International (now a division of Lubrizol), a producer of polymers and specialty additives, from 2001 to 2004. Previously he served in similar positions at International Specialty Products (now a part of Ashland Chemicals) and Cytec Industries (now a part of Solvay). Mr. Shah has over 30 years experience in management, strategic planning and business development in the chemicals industry.