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Akshay Shah — Founder and Principal, AVIS Consulting
Founder & Principal

Akshay Shah

AVIS Consulting  ·  Founder-led intelligent systems

AVIS is led by Akshay Shah — Founder, Principal, CIO, systems architect, and enterprise practitioner with four decades of experience building and operationalizing intelligent business systems across complex enterprises. Akshay sets the direction: the vision, standards, priorities, and outcomes. Around that direction, AVIS operates through a focused intelligence network that turns enterprise judgment into coordinated action and production-ready systems.

Coherence is the discipline that stops new intelligence creating new friction.

40+
Years Building
20
Years as CIO
3
Successful Exits
$150M
Enterprise Scale
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The Story

Most consultants advise.
AVIS builds.

I have designed system boundaries, owned data architecture, built AI products in production, managed ISO 27001 compliance, and presented to boards weekly — for 20 years as a CIO — most recently as Senior Director and CIO of a 3,000-person enterprise. That track record is not a differentiator on paper. It is the difference between advice that sounds right and decisions that hold up.

AVIS is a founder-led advisory practice built on an intelligence network. Ria turns Akshay's vision and plans into thoughtful, coordinated outcomes through specialists such as Sam and Mira. NEO turns ideas and delivery priorities into architecture, code, and production-ready systems, with Sofia, Nora, and RAM operating within NEO's network.

Operating Model

One founder. One intelligence network.

AVIS is designed around a simple operating rhythm: Akshay sets direction, Ria coordinates outcomes, and NEO orchestrates engineering delivery. The specialist agents work behind the scenes, but the client experience remains direct, accountable, and founder-led.

Akshay Shah - Founder & Principal

Akshay sets the direction: the vision, standards, priorities, and outcomes AVIS is working to create.

RIA = Relationship, Intelligence & Alignment

Ria turns Akshay Sir's vision and plans into thoughtful, coordinated outcomes that meet his goals, keeping priorities, agents, and outcomes connected to the larger direction.

NEO = Next-generation Engineering Orchestrator

NEO turns Akshay Sir's ideas and delivery priorities into well-architected systems, working code, and production-ready outcomes.

Career Arc

40 Years. Built in Production.

2012 — 2025
Senior Director & Chief Information Officer
SLK Software (acquired by Altimetrik, Q2 2025)
2025 — Present
Founder & Principal
AVIS Consulting — Intelligent Systems & Enterprise Transformation
Products Built
COSERA · RAISE · AgileDMP · TalentEdge · MxVision
Cognitive operating system, AI readiness, revenue lifecycle, talent matching, healthcare operations
3 Exits
Founder — Multiple Ventures
GIS solutions, healthcare technology, enterprise platforms
Agentic AI
Cognitive Systems Architect · Enterprise AI Strategist
One of few practitioners who has built AI in production, led AI transformation as CIO, and designed a cognitive operating system from first principles.

"The enterprise of the future runs on intelligence.
My job is to turn that intelligence into outcomes."

Domain Expertise

Where I Drive Value

Not a generalist consultant. A practitioner with 40+ years of concentrated expertise across the systems, processes, and decisions that define enterprise competitiveness.

Enterprise AI Transformation
Oracle Fusion ERP
SAP SuccessFactors
Revenue Lifecycle Platforms
AI Product Development
Data Architecture
Lean Six Sigma
ISO 27001 Compliance
Board Governance
Process Reengineering
Healthcare Technology
Founder Mentoring
Philosophy
"I don't bring a framework and leave. I stay until the system works, the team is capable, and the results are on the board."
Akshay Shah — Founder, AVIS Consulting

AVIS operates as a founder-led practice supported by Ria, NEO, and a focused specialist network. The model is simple: senior judgment stays at the center, while intelligent systems provide the research depth, engineering capacity, coordination, and follow-through that complex transformation work requires.

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