Avi Nash has more than 40 years of experience in the chemical industry, corporate finance and investing. He currently runs an investment management firm. From 2003-13, he advised some of the world’s leading chemical companies on acquisitions and corporate strategy.
Earlier, Avi was a partner at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he helped lead the firm’s global chemical industry effort, playing an instrumental role in numerous mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. He was consistently ranked as the #1 investment research analyst covering the chemical industry during the 1990-2002 period. Prior to this, his career was split between Booz Allen & Hamilton (strategy consulting) and UOP (petroleum-refining technology). Avi served as a director of Sigma-Aldrich, a Fortune 500 Life-Sciences company for 10 years. He currently chairs two charitable foundations.
Avi holds a BTech in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay, where he was named a distinguished alumnus. He also holds an MS from Syracuse University, and an MBA from Northwestern University.
