Raj Shah

Raj Shah is the managing partner of Shield Capital, a venture capital firm focused on technologies at the nexus of the commercial and defense markets. He is also the chairman of Resilience, a start-up powering new approaches to cyber risk and insurance. Previously he ran the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), reporting to the secretary of defense. Shah led DIUx in its efforts to strengthen US armed forces through contractual and cultural bridges between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. Shah serves as a reserve F-16 pilot in the Air National Guard and has completed multiple combat deployments. He holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.