2x founder

Malay Shah

CEO of Poka Labs | Chemical Engineer | Harvard MBA

Founder

Poka Labs· Summer 2024 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2024Founder· Poka Labs

Founder · since 2018

Company

Poka Labs

Role

Founder and CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Poka Labs

Helping industrial manufacturers win deals fast, at the right price.

Summer 2024

Experience

Career

Poka Labs
Founder
Founder and CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – Present
2024
HBSBuilds
Co-President · Greater Boston · 2023 – 2024
2023
Harvard Business School
MBA Candidate · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2022 – 2024
2022
LORD Corporation, A Part of Parker Hannifin
Global Operations Engineer II · Cary, North Carolina, United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
LORD Corporation, A Part of Parker Hannifin
Career Foundations Program: Lead Operational Readiness Engineer for China · Shanghai, China · 2020
2020
LORD Corporation, A Part of Parker Hannifin
Career Foundations Program: Global Scale-Up Engineering · Cary, North Carolina, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019
LORD Corporation, A Part of Parker Hannifin
Career Foundations Program: Process Improvement Engineer · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States · 2019
2019
LORD Corporation
Chemical Business Development Intern · Cary North Carolina · 2016 – 2019
2016
Portal Technologies
Co-founder
Co-Founder · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · 2018 – 2019
2018
NC State University
Engineering Ambassador · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area · 2016 – 2019
2016
NC State University
Undergraduate Research Assistant in Chemical Engineering · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area · 2013 – 2019
2013
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Research Intern · Würzburg Area, Germany · 2018
2018

Bio

Malay is the Co-Founder and CEO of Poka Labs. He earned degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics from NC State and an MBA from Harvard Business School. With a background in the specialty chemicals industry, Malay has held various positions in operations and engineering working across plants in US, Germany, and China. His work in deploying chemical expertise with advanced analytics has saved his previous employers tens of millions of dollars.