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Ruchir Shah

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Founder & CEO at SkillCat
📍 New York, New York, United States

Ruchir Shah is the Founder and CEO of SkillCat, an online platform using simulation-based training to upskill and place workers in the skilled trades. A Stanford MBA graduate, he has a history of founding educational ventures, including a platform to train oil and gas workers and a non-profit that published educational comic books for children.

Fueled by a passion for making difficult topics accessible and fun, Ruchirs work addresses the skilled trades labor shortage by creating affordable pathways into high-demand careers. He previously performed stand-up comedy in New York City and is driven by a mission to solve what he considers one of the largest social problems of our time.

Unique fact: He founded a non-profit called EZ Comics that distributed 10, 000 educational comic books to 16 countries in partnership with the US State Department.

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Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Topics Ruchir cares about

Skilled Trades Advocacy
He is passionate about changing the societal stigma around the skilled trades and promoting them as a high-satisfaction, debt-free career path for young people.
Workforce Reskilling
His work at SkillCat and the GRIT Foundation focuses on creating accessible, low-cost training to move workers from declining industries into trades with labor shortages.
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Career

Work history

Founder & CEO
SkillCat
Co-Founder
GRIT Foundation
Co-Founder & CEO
Learn To Drill
Analyst
Calpine
Founder & CEO
EZ Comics
In the press

Media appearances

Ruchir Shah - Skillcat, stand‑up comedy, and 1500 hours …. Featured in Apple Podcasts (Australia)
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Ruchir Shah: SkillCat – The Parts Truth. Featured in Apple Podcasts (Great Britain)
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Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Computer Science
Stanford University
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