Darshan Shah, MRICS
Partner & Group Head, Industrial Consulting
Darshan Shah is a Partner and Group Head of Industrial Consulting at ValuStrat, bringing over 20 years of specialised technical advisory experience to lead complex industrial assessments across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
Executive Profile
A highly qualified Chemical Engineer and MRICS professional, Darshan seamlessly bridges technical engineering frameworks with commercial investment parameters. He directs all facets of the Industrial Consulting division, driving business development, team management, and hands-on project execution.
Prior to ValuStrat, Darshan spent two decades building his expertise at leading multinational firms including Knight Frank, Mott MacDonald, and Dun & Bradstreet. He possesses deep sector knowledge across the chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, textile, metals, and power industries. This robust background enables him to accurately underwrite heavily specialised industrial real estate and critical plant machinery.
Industrial Advisory & Client Value
- Technical Due Diligence & Feasibility: Executes rigorous techno-economic viability studies to ensure capital-intensive industrial projects meet structural and commercial benchmarks.
- Asset & Machinery Valuation: Delivers highly specialised valuations of industrial real estate, operational plants, and complex machinery for financial reporting and acquisitions.
- Lender's Engineer & Project Monitoring: Serves as an independent technical auditor for financial institutions, ensuring construction and operational milestones align with lending covenants.
Core Areas of Expertise
- Technical Due Diligence
- Industrial Asset & Real Estate Valuation
- Plant & Machinery Appraisal
- Techno-Economic Feasibility & Viability
- Project Monitoring & Lender’s Engineer Services
- Cross-Sector Engineering (Chemicals, Power, Pharma, F&B and 15+ other sectors)
Qualifications and Career Summary
- 20+ Years of technical advisory and engineering consulting experience
- 12+ years of industrial consulting leadership at ValuStrat
- Professional Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), UK
- Fellow Member & Approved Plant & Machinery Valuer, The Institution of Valuers, New Delhi
- Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering, University of Mumbai, India
