Dhiren H Shah

In Jan. 2006 Dhiren joined independent global investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. Prior to that he served as head of Morgan Stanley’s global technology banking group, leading a team across six offices worldwide and advising leading technology companies on corporate finance and mergers, acquisitions and restructurings. He joined Morgan Stanley in New York in 1988, working in areas of increasing responsibility as head of the Princes Gate Private Equity Fund, as deputy head of European Mergers & Acquisitions and as co-head of Global Technology Banking. In 1996, he led a new team rebuilding the firm's European technology banking practice from the London office. Dhiren began his career in finance in 1982 working for Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. He currently serves on the board of overseers for the University of Pennsylvania Library and on the board of Camfed USA Foundation. Headquartered in Cambridge, England, Camfed supports girls' education in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Zambia. Dhiren also supports Teach for America; the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania; and the Student Sponsor Program in New York City. He earned a BS in Economics summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Dhiren, his wife Katie and their four children live in New York City. He is a member of the 2005 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.