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Malay Shah

Founder, Poka Labs 


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About Malay Shah

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.

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Poka Labs

Poka Labs

Poka Labs builds an AI platform to help sales reps at chemical manufacturers respond to requests from customers and win more business. Our agent understands each companies product catalog, customer purchase behaviors, and company specific pricing logic to price, quote, and win the business.

Malay and Andrew met while pursuing their MBAs at Harvard Business School. Malay previously worked as an engineer in the specialty chemical industry, saving his employers over $100 million across US, China, and German plants. Andrew worked as a software engineer on data infrastructure at Meta and optimization problems at a seed-stage startup. He also completed a Masters degree at Harvard specializing in Machine Learning.

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