Amit Shashank

Amit Shashank is a strategically-oriented global leader, with more than twenty years of international experience in technology and business services organizations. As general counsel, he oversees Life Biosciences’ government affairs, legal, and compliance initiatives. Amit is a leader in navigating complex regulatory approvals and developing global strategic alliances that span mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and all phases of corporation financings. On two separate occasions, Amit has led companies toward commercializing and liquidity events which include initial public offerings (IPO). Most recently, Amit served as executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Aricent, a global R&D engineering and design powerhouse, which under his leadership as part of the executive team, grew to over 10,000 employees. In 2018, Amit was instrumental in supporting KKR & Co. in the sale of Aricent to Altran Technologies (EPA: ALT) for $2 billion. Prior to Aricent, Amit served as executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer, and secretary at ExlService Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXLS), an operations management and analytics company with more than 20,000 employees globally, where he led the IPO and NASDAQ listing of the company. Amit began his career at Shearman and Sterling LLP after graduating from The University of Michigan Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law. Amit is also a Rhodes Scholar and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School.