Manish Shah
Entrepreneur & Engineer
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2025 - Current
VAIL is pioneering the discipline of Model Informatics to learn about models as complex information systems. Just as bioinformatics revolutionized how we handle genetic data, Model Informatics is transforming how we intelligently interact with artificial intelligence. As we uncover important properties and ground truths about AI systems, we build and distribute the tools needed to verify these properties to ensure we are using AI as designed.
Founder
2025 - 2025
CEO, Co-founder
2014 - 2023
Digital health technologies focused on helping people with musculoskeletal issues (pain & immobility). Leveraged smartphones, wearable devices, data, and AI within digital/autonomous programs and multi-specialty, virtual care teams to help people recover from diagnosed MSK issues. PeerWell was acquired in 2022 by Bardavon Health Innovations
Advisor
2011 - 2016
A national network of "civic hackers" innovating government & community.
Co-Founder, Chief Geek
2012 - 2013
The first ever platform for tracking real-time, connected, charitable behavior.
Co-Founder
2005 - 2011
One of the earliest companies to focus on data services as it related to people on the internet. Powered a variety of applications atop our APIs: commerce, fraud, social, real-time personalization, marketing & communications, and programmatic & quantified online marketing. Rapleaf was acquired in 2013 by Tower Data LiveRamp was acquired in 2014 by Acxiom
Co-Founder
2005 - 2006
CTO and Co-Founder
2005 - 2006
Research Assistant
2004 - 2004
Protocol research and development, potential market applications, protocol testing, research platfrom testing and implementation