Raj Shah is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Shield Capital, a venture capital firm focused on technologies at the convergence of commercial and defense markets. He is also the chairman of Resilience, a cybersecurity start-up he co-founded.

Raj served as the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), reporting to the Secretary of Defense. Raj recently co-authored the book, Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War, which describes DIUx’s efforts to modernize the U.S. military and bridge cultural divides between the technology ecosystem and the Pentagon.

Raj currently serves on the Board of Directors of the NATO Innovation Fund. He continues his reserve uniformed service as an F-16 pilot in the Air National Guard and is assigned as the Director of the Joint Reserve Detachment at DIU (DIU-JRD). He holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.