Biography
Jamie Shah is the President of her family’s business, Chem-Impex, a distributor and manufacturer of high purity laboratory chemicals, specializing in amino acids used in peptide synethesis. Prior to Chem-Impex, Shah was the Chief Operating Officer of The Spice House, a private equity backed business. She was also previously the lead associate at Hyde Park Angels and Hyde Park Venture Partners, and was selected as a Kauffman Fellows Finalist. She started her career at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in the consumer retail group, and then was a financial analyst for Google Maps.
In addition to teaching Outperform & Outlast: Operating and Investing in Family Businesses at Booth, Shah is a Polsky Center Entrepreneur in Residence where she provides mentorship and coaching to University of Chicago students interested in exploring topics related to family business and long term ownership and operations.
Shah earned a dual degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison in finance, investments, and banking and Spanish literature and language, and an MBA from Chicago Booth. In 2023, Shah was selected as one of Family Business Magazine's Transformational Women in Business.
Shah serves on the University of Wisconsin's Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Board and resides in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago with her husband, Anish, and their two children Rowan (8) and Sona (4).
