Shail Kumar

Shailendra “Shail” Kumar is the Founder & President of Nalanda 2.0. Prior to writing Building Golden India, he worked at two prestigious research universities: UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. Before that, Shail spent over fifteen years in Silicon Valley working in high-tech companies. He was co-founder and CEO of two start-ups, and held progressively senior roles in corporate strategy, global operations and planning, business development, and finance in Fortune 500 companies such as Applied Materials, FMC Corp., and Lam Research.

He holds a B.Tech with honors in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. He served as President of the IIT Foundation and co-founded the Pan IIT alumni movement in the US. In recognition of his contributions, he received IIT Kharagpur’s Distinguished Service Award.