Mr. Avi Nash founded a firm that has advised many of the world’s leading chemical companies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and strategy and also heads an investment-advisory firm. Earlier he was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he helped lead the firm’s global chemical industry effort, and mentored numerous senior professionals. Avi served as director of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, a global Fortune 500 multinational providing high purity ingredients used in pharmaceutical and diagnostic applications. Besides MFE he heads the US based Indira Foundation which supports charitable activities in the US and India. Avi has an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, an M.Sc. from Syracuse University, and a B.Tech. from IIT-Bombay, which named him a Distinguished Alumnus.