Meet our team
Rupesh Shah
Pronouns: He/Him
Title: Chief Operating Officer
Joined Crisis Text Line: July 2025
Rupesh Shah brings 25 years of leadership experience across for-profit and nonprofit sectors. He excels at solving complex customer challenges through deep empathy and collaboration, designing innovative software and data products. Rupesh has scaled solutions in financial & agricultural software, renewable energy and ed tech, holding leadership roles at Worldly, Corteva, Khan Academy, Intuit, Simpa Energy, and more. He serves on the boards of De La Gente, a Guatemalan coffee cooperative, and Nexleaf, a social enterprise managing cold chain data in the Global South. Rupesh holds a BA in Sociology from UC San Diego and an MBA from Northwestern University.