Co-Chairman, CEO, & Co-Founder, Wayfair
Niraj Shah is Co-Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Wayfair. He co-founded the company with Steve Conine in 2002, and the pair rapidly grew the business to become the largest online retailer of home furnishings, housewares, and home improvement goods in the U.S., generating $3.9 billion in net revenue for the twelve months ended June 30, 2017.
Before founding Wayfair, Niraj served as CEO and co-founder of Simplify Mobile, an enterprise software company which was sold in 2001. Prior to that, he served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners, COO and a member of the Board of Directors at iXL, a publicly traded global technology consulting firm, and the CEO and co-founder of Spinners, which was sold to iXL in 1998.
Niraj has been included in Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40, and has won the Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. He also serves on the board of Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Niraj holds a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University and lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.