Speakers

Avi Shah is the Head of AI Solutions for AEA Investors’ Elevate team. In his role, he collaborates with AEA Elevate portfolio companies to identify high-impact AI opportunities and leads end-to-end implementations across the portfolio.

Prior to AEA, Avi served as Senior Director of Product Management for Agentforce, where he partnered with enterprise customers on their AI transformation journeys and led the 0-to-1 development of multiple AI products. Avi has spent over a decade building and leading product teams across SMB, enterprise, and consumer technology. Earlier in his career, Avi held product roles at PayPal and advised a range of early-stage companies on building and scaling their product functions.

Avi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Firm Bio

AEA Elevate partners with founder-owned, lower-middle-market professional services companies across tech-enabled business services and healthcare services. The strategy focuses on differentiated businesses in fragmented markets that can scale through specialization, shared services, data-driven go-to-market execution, and technology-enabled operating improvement. Elevate brings flexible capital, deep sector pattern recognition, and hands-on operating support across strategy, leadership, technology, M&A, capital markets, product, and strategic finance. The team underwrites growth through controllable levers, including customer acquisition returns, professional productivity, margin expansion, and AI-enabled workflow transformation. With an AI-first lens, AEA Elevate seeks businesses where technology can improve customer outcomes, enhance the professional value proposition, and create durable, retained margin gains—helping companies accelerate revenue, build for scale, and become category leaders.