Praveen Shah

Founder & CEO, Mobity LLC

How He Serves

Praveen is an ex-Big-4 strategy, operations, and management consultant. As their trusted strategic advisor and change agent, Praveen helps the Board members, CxOs, Owners, and Investors of Fortune-Global and Small-Midsize companies to acquire, grow, transform, and optimize socially impactful and financially lucrative businesses.

Praveen is also a successful serial entrepreneur and early-stage CEO with five acquisition exits. As their cofounder, CEO/Executive Chairman, seed investor, board member, or board advisor Praveen partners with, invests in, and mentors purpose-driven entrepreneurs, technologists, and physicians to form, fund, build, launch, hyper-scale, and exit high-social-impact and high-market-value startups based on exponential technologies and disruptive business models.

Why Clients Trust His Advice

Clients covet and rush to retain Praveen as their first-choice business partner and trusted advisor for his prescient vision, polymathic knowledge, strategic clarity, and pragmatic insights.

In his 30-year storied career as a management consultant, early-stage CxO, serial entrepreneur, and coach Praveen has

• Cofounded five and incubated 15+ VC funded high tech (AI/ML), digital health, and software as a Service startups in CEO/Chairman/board-advisor roles with five acquisition exits,
• Mentored tens of young, first-time, or physician entrepreneurs and executives on how to fund, staff, manage, market, grow, and exit their funded or bootstrapped ventures and medical practices,
• Built Big-4 and boutique solution integration and strategy consulting practices and led tens of globally distributed product and project teams, and
• Sold and delivered 125+ client engagements from strategy to execution and helped transform, scale, and optimize 75+ fortune-500/midsize businesses.

Praveen’s recent incubations and roles include

• Venture incubation CEO, Gaido Health (a JV between BCG and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, AI-based software as a medical device remote patient monitoring platform), acquired by Biofourmis (which subsequently became a unicorn),
• Cofounder and Executive Chairman, WorkPatterns (AI, operational intelligence; acquisition exit)

Professional Experience

Before Mobity, Praveen helped build a $50M/year revenue cloud services firm Quovera, a $10M/year Supply-Chain-Integration practice at KPMG, a $5M/year mechanical/industrial engineering consulting center at Lehigh University, and managed supplier relations at Philips Consumer Electronics.

The list of fortune-global clients Praveen has served includes Apple, BCG, Best Buy, Cisco, Commonwealth of PA, Deutsche Telekom, Exide, Frito Lay, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, LG, Mack Truck/Volvo, McDermott, NXP Semi, On Semi, Qualcomm, Smurfit-Stone, ST Micro, Sun Micro/Oracle, Sutter Health, Toyota, and US DoD.

Praveen has hosted panels for and presented at ABL CxO roundtables, TiE.org conferences, the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, Claremont Mckenna College Parent Network, and Harvey Mudd College Incubator.