Amit Rai is a Managing Director & Partner at BCG X Ventures (XV) in the UK, leading the Industrial Goods practice in Western Europe. Since joining XV in 2017, he has driven the creation of market-disrupting businesses, including co-founding MachineMax, a pioneering equipment management platform that was acquired by Shell in 2021. Amit's career includes leadership roles at Microsoft, McKinsey and Nokia. An active advisor and investor in early-stage startups globally, Amit holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.