Jay Shah

Mr. Jay Shah is a Chief Executive Officer at Edelman Financial Engines LLC, at Financial Engines Advisors LLC and a Chief Executive Officer & Director at Empower Personal Wealth LLC.
He is on the Board of Directors at One Finance, Inc. and Empower Personal Wealth LLC.
With more than 30 years of experience at enterprise and consumer-direct companies, he has a passion for building client-centric growth companies at the nexus of financial services and technology, while leveraging the powerful combination of people and digital resources.
Prior to Edelman Financial Engines, he helped grow the financial planning-driven and tech-enabled retail wealth management pioneer, Personal Capital.
Since April 2017, he served as that firm’s chief executive officer and guided its successful acquisition by Empower, a top retirement plan recordkeeper.
Jay helped create Personal Capital in 2009 and previously served as the chief operating officer and chief information officer.
Earlier in his career, he served as chief information officer of E-LOAN, Inc., a multibillion-dollar consumer lending platform, where he led the build-out of the consumer-direct banking platform.
He also held the roles of chief operating officer and chief technology officer at Myers Internet, a B2B SaaS enterprise platform for small and midsized business financial services companies; chief information officer at Provident Funding Associates, a mortgage wholesaler; and director of technology, National Risk Management Services at PwC, where he led the project/knowledge management software integration for the firm and its FORTUNE 100 enterprise clientele.
He started his career at Chevron Corporation as a production and financial analyst for their U.S.
production company.
Mr. Shah earned a Bachelor of Arts in business economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, with a concentration in accounting.