EmStar Consulting

Growth & Transformation Partner I Energy & Financial Services With more than two decades of experience advising client leaders on strategy, planning, and operational improvement topics, Ms. Shah is the founder of EmStar Consulting, a growth and transformation advisor to senior executives in the utilities and insurance industries. Ms. Shah has served the senior management or Board of Directors of various energy industry clients, including electric and gas utilities, electric transmission entities, and research, technology, and service providers to the utility industry. Her engagements in this space have covered strategic planning, market assessment, growth strategy, market entry and execution plan development, business and operating model transformation, and operations and organization issue identification and mitigation. In addition to the energy sector, Ms. Shah has also extensively served healthcare and financial services companies on topics ranging across strategy development, product portfolio strategy, innovation, and rationalization, strategic option evaluation, banking operations post-merger integration, cost reduction and sourcing initiatives, process and organization improvements. Prior to founding EmStar, Ms. Shah was a Managing Director (Partner), Strategic Consulting with Houlihan Lokey and a Director (Partner) with Bridge Strategy Group LLC. At both firms, Ms. Shah was responsible for leading and developing the natural gas practice while concurrently serving insurance clients. Prior to Bridge, Ms. Shah was a manager in Accenture’s Organization & Human Performance practice, where she led business transformation and change management efforts at property casualty insurers, financial services technology start-ups, and public sector clients.