Vaidehi (Vai) was inspired to dedicate her career to impactful healthcare initiatives following the loss of her father after a diabetic foot amputation. With over two decades of extensive experience in business management and investment, Ms. Shah has championed a dual mission: fostering sustainable development in underserved markets and nurturing the growth of innovative healthcare enterprises.
Her journey as a social entrepreneur began as the Founder and Managing Director of Velocitas Partners, where she established a global distribution platform for innovative medical devices across 50 countries, and spearheaded an investment in Altrazeal Life Sciences Inc., a developer of ground-breaking drug delivery and wound care technologies. She also transformed the Daotec Group, an Austrian telecom services provider, into a regulated international payment services platform during her tenure as CEO.
Ms. Shah’s prior experience includes banking and investment roles at Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, and the World Bank, where she helped drive growth at various portfolio companies through innovative financial and business strategies. Ms. Shah received her M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College, with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics. Vaidehi has visited over 45 countries across 6 continents and successfully concluded business transactions in many diverse regions encompassing the Middle East (including Afghanistan), Europe, Asia and the Americas.
