Hemant Shah

Hemant Shah is President and CEO of Risk Management Solutions. Since co-founding RMS in 1989, Shah has become widely recognized within the global insurance industry as a proactive and influential leader.

Based in California, he was named one of North America’s “100 Most Powerful People in the Insurance Industry” (Insurance Newscast, 2005, 2006), one of “35 Rising Stars” (Business Insurance, 2002), a “Leader of the Future” (Global Reinsurance, 2000) and also listed as one of the industry’s Top 40 Most Influential (Global Reinsurance, 2008).

Shah serves on the Board of Overseers of St. John’s School of Risk Management and Actuarial Science (College of Insurance), is a Director of the RAND Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, a Director on the Board of RAND’s Institute for Civil Justice, and a Director of the Singapore-based Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies.