Ash Shah

President & CEO at IMPEX Capital Group

Speaker

Ash Shah started his entrepreneurial venture in the field of Plastic Films, Paper and Packaging products in 1994 by establishing a business named "Impex Global, LLC". The company grew with multiple locations all over North America and operations in several international markets offering value added distribution and manufacturing services to a wide range of clients in Food, Beverage, Industrial, Healthcare and Packaging applications.

Mr. Shah's leadership navigated the company through demanding, yet illustrious times and in the process enabled him to forge valuable relationships with several plastics, chemical and packaging industry leaders worldwide. Under Mr. Shah's oversight, Impex Global became the most leading and premier manufacturer and distributor of plastic films and packaging products all across North America with 7 distribution locations in the U.S. and Canada thus enabling Impex Global to grow multiple fold, both in terms of sales revenues and EBITDA.

After about 20 years of owning Impex Global, Mr. Shah sold his company to a leading private equity group to pursue other investment opportunities and flexible work schedule to focus on family time.

While looking for other investment opportunities, Mr Shah decided to foray into the Commercial Real Estate Market with his personal success in this new venture and given his leadership skills. Mr Shah has been engaged as an investor and board member in various sectors, such as Industrial, Packaging, Distribution, Technology, Healthcare and Commercial Real Estate. Mr Shah has steered many companies in terms of Recapitalization, Merger & Acquisition or an Exit to a strategic buyer or private equity.