Biography

Ajay Shah has served as a managing partner at Silver Lake, a global private equity investment firm from 2007 to 2021 and was the co-founder and Managing Partner of the firm's middle market growth fund, Silver Lake Sumeru. Mr. Shah served as Chairman of the board of SMART Global Holdings (“SGH”), a publicly held Silver Lake portfolio company that he co-founded in 1989 and served as a board member from 2011 to 2022. Shah held the role of President and CEO of SGH twice, from 1989 to 2000 and from 2018 to 2020. In addition, he was the CEO of Maui Greens, an agriculture technology company, from 2021 to 2022. Currently, Shah sits on the boards of several private tech firms like Mercury Healthcare and Vast Data. Mr. Shah previously served on the boards of many public and private technology companies including Magellan Navigation, Inc., AVI-SPL, Inc., CMAC MicroTechnology, Flex, Ingenient Technologies Inc., Power-One, Inc., PulseCore Semiconductor, Spansion Inc. and others. His board service extends to non-profits like the National Audubon Society and the Indian School of Business. Shah holds a B.S. in Engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.