PROFILE
PROFILE OF PARESH SHAH
US - IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTICE
Through his own law practice, Mr. Shah represented thousands of people and both small and large corporations, allowing them to receive their immigration benefits in the United States.
US - INDIA POLITICAL RELATIONS
Mr. Shah was also involved with Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama during their presidencies and personally discussed and/or presented immigration proposals or discussed US-India policies with them. Mr. Shah accompanied President Clinton as part of the exclusive 45 member White House delegation to India in March 2000, the first business visit ever by a US president to India.
PARESH SHAH
Paresh Shah is an international business strategist, diplomatic liaison, entertainment industry pioneer, and humanitarian leader with more than three decades of cross-sector impact spanning U.S. federal policy, global commerce, Hollywood and Bollywood entertainment, and international crisis response.
Based in Los Angeles, California, he has been a licensed California attorney since 1995, and also holds licenses as a California Real Estate Broker, General Contractor, former NASD Series 7 and Series 63 licensed Stockbroker and former licensed NBA Sports Agent. He previously served as an NBA-certified sports agent.
Throughout his career, Mr. Shah has operated at the intersection of government leadership, multinational enterprise, global media, and humanitarian service. He is widely recognized for translating high-level relationships into measurable economic, cultural, and policy outcomes across the United States, India, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
Early Legal Career and Federal Policy Engagement
Mr. Shah began his professional journey as Founder and Managing Attorney of the Law Offices of Paresh Shah, practicing immigration law from 1995 to 2007. During this period, he represented thousands of individuals, families, and corporations seeking immigration benefits in the United States.
His work extended beyond individual representation into national policy engagement. He participated in high-level discussions concerning H-1B visa reform, Green Card §245(i) extensions, and F-1 visa recapture initiatives, positioning himself as a respected voice in employment-based immigration reform and federal legislative dialogue.
Mr. Shah personally engaged on policy matters with four U.S. Presidents:
His discussions focused on immigration reform, U.S.–India bilateral relations, and strategic trade cooperation.
In March 2000, Mr. Shah was selected by the White House as one of only 45 delegates to accompany President Clinton on his historic state visit to India. He was the youngest delegate and the only American-born Indian included in the delegation. That visit marked a significant milestone in strengthening U.S.–India relations and catalyzed expanded trade and strategic collaboration between the two democracies.
Media and Entertainment Industry Impact
Mr. Shah has played a transformative role in global media and celebrity-driven brand expansion.
As Co-Founder of Hollywood.TV (2005–2013), he helped build one of the fastest-scaling celebrity media platforms worldwide, reaching audiences in more than 120 countries with multi-billion cumulative viewership. The platform gained international recognition for exclusive coverage involving Michael Jackson and became a mainstream syndicated entertainment news source across major U.S. networks.
He later co-founded Millions of Milkshakes, an entertainment-driven consumer brand that expanded from West Hollywood into Dubai, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Shanghai. The company became globally recognized for celebrity-integrated launches and international promotional appearances.
Mr. Shah personally organized and orchestrated global appearances and brand activations at various Millions of Milkshakes locations featuring leading entertainment and sports figures, including:
- Kim Kardashian
- Paris Hilton
- Zendaya
- Bella Thorne
- Justin Bieber
- Priyanka Chopra
- Miley Cyrus
- Lindsay Lohan
- Pamela Anderson
- Shaquille O’Neal
These appearances generated extensive international media coverage and positioned the brand at the center of celebrity culture and global entertainment marketing. The company was successfully sold following its worldwide commercial expansion.
Cultural Diplomacy and U.S.–India Entertainment Integration
Mr. Shah has consistently served as a bridge between Hollywood and Bollywood, strengthening cultural ties between the United States and India through entertainment diplomacy.
In 2014, he organized the historic appearance of John Travolta at the International Indian Film Academy Awards. During the ceremony, Mr. Travolta performed live alongside Priyanka Chopra before an estimated global television audience exceeding 800 million viewers.
The moment was widely regarded as a landmark example of cross-cultural entertainment collaboration and international goodwill.
Global Business and Strategic Advisory Leadership
In 2015, Mr. Shah founded Hollywood.Tech, LLC, where he serves as Founder and Global Strategist. In this capacity, he advises post-validated early-stage and growth-stage companies on international commercialization, strategic partnerships, regulatory positioning, and global market expansion.
His advisory portfolio spans:
- Energy and oil & gas ventures
- Carbon credit platforms
- Artificial intelligence–driven financial systems
- Data infrastructure and international data centers
- Disruptive solar technologies
- Advanced medical devices
- Pharmaceutical API distribution
- Cryptocurrency tokenization platforms
- Sports representation initiatives
- Entertainment event production
- Real estate development
He is known for identifying technologies prepared for scale and aligning them with capital markets, distribution networks, and cross-border regulatory environments, while maintaining a strong emphasis on ethical leadership and mission-driven innovation.
Humanitarian Leadership
During the height of the COVID-19 crisis in India in 2021, Mr. Shah played a coordinating role in emergency relief efforts. He helped secure a donated Boeing 747 cargo aircraft and facilitated the transport of approximately 2,000 oxygen concentrators and substantial quantities of personal protective equipment valued at approximately $4 million.
Working alongside nonprofit partners and in coordination with governmental channels, he assisted in organizing rapid international logistics during one of the most critical humanitarian emergencies in recent history.
Global Impact
Paresh Shah’s career reflects a rare integration of policy engagement, multinational deal-making, cultural diplomacy, celebrity-driven brand expansion, and humanitarian execution.
His cross-sector experience spans from humanitarian causes and ventures, global oil and gas, global commodities, data centers, green technology, artificial intelligence, healthcare innovation, entertainment and media, consumer brands, sports management, transportation, agriculture and soil health, real estate development, international trade, and digital asset platforms.
He continues to operate at the nexus of government, commerce, media, and global leadership—building bridges between industries and nations while fostering economic opportunity, innovation, and international cooperation.
US - IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTICE
Through his own law practice, Mr. Shah represented thousands of people and both small and large corporations, allowing them to receive their immigration benefits in the United States.
US - INDIA POLITICAL RELATIONS
Mr. Shah was also involved with Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama during their presidencies and personally discussed and/or presented immigration proposals or discussed US-India policies with them. Mr. Shah accompanied President Clinton as part of the exclusive 45 member White House delegation to India in March 2000, the first business visit ever by a US president to India.
In addition to his top level political relations in the US, as the only American born Indian as well as the youngest on the esteemed Clinton Presidential delegation , Mr. Shah’s inclusion opened top level access for him to both the BJP and Congress political parties of India due to the uniqueness of his background.
HOLLYWOOD MEDIA COMPANIES
In the entertainment industry, Mr. Shah was the co-founder of highly popular Hollywood.TV whose breaking news celebrity content was a daily television feature and whose content was globally viewed by an estimated two billion people. Justin Bieber attended the grand opening launch of Hollywood.TV in Brazil.
Mr. Shah also co-founded the world famous milkshake bar franchise, Millions of Milkshakes. After the launch of the flagship store in West Hollywood, California, Millions of Milkshakes was successfully launched in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2011, and later in Bahrain and Kuwait in 2012 and Shanghai, China in 2013. Reality super star Kim Kardashian accompanied Mr. Shah and his partner for the opening and launch of Millions of Milkshakes in all three Middle East countries, Paris Hilton attended the Shanghai launch, and each grand opening launch became worldwide new.
Mr. Shah also had the honor of taking Hollywood “A” list legend John Travolta to Tampa, Florida to attend the IIFA Awards when they were held in the United States for the first time. The IIFA awards is the Academy Awards of India and its 2.5 billion fan base industry called Bollywood.
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:
- Vice President and Chief Growth Officer of Proactiff Digital Healthcare – Proactiff is the most comprehensive medical technology platform that is fully enabled by Artificial Intelligence and connects wearable technology with artificial intelligence, telemedicine and machine learning. Mr. Shah has introduced numerous medical systems and platforms to Proactiff including large IPA (Independent Medical Association) groups representing thousands of healthcare professionals across the United States, large multinational managed healthcare and insurance companies covering millions of lives, and large multinational companies with total accumulated employee bases exceeding 500,000 people
- Founder and Executive Vice President of Sprizzi – Sprizzi is a US manufacturing company making home beverage machines for cold carbonated and non-carbonated drinks. Mr. Shah’s duties include ensuring highly productive relationships and partnerships for the benefit of the organization. Mr. Shah’s activities include bringing athletes and celebrities to the company for branding purposes, introducing top nutraceutical and vitamin companies for beverage creation, introducing globally popular alcohol and non-alcohol beverage brands for syrup co-packing purposes, introducing companies to Sprizzi for business acceleration and product distribution, introducing systems to save revenue and maximize profits, introducing “A” level business contacts to the company for Board of Advisor positions, introducing US and foreign investors to Sprizzi, etc.
- Founder of Hollywood.Tech, LLC – Mr. Shah is an early stage investor in metaverse companies as well as engaged in the negotiation and creation of NFT’s (Non-fungible Tokens) involving US celebrities, athletes, foundations and corporate brands.
- Hollywood Bollywood Entertainment Founder March 2017 – Present – Mr. Shah has been given the Letter of Authority to bring the Bollywood Academy Awards from India with its 800 million global television viewing audience, to the United States in 2024. The Bollywood Academy awards is a multi-day festival event celebrating Indian cinema, business and entertainment. Through the Bollywood Academy Awards Mr. Shah will be bridging together for the first time ever the two biggest entertainment industries in the world, Hollywood and Bollywood with its combined multi-billion worldwide fan base and the televised event will undoubtedly showcase the biggest Bollywood and Hollywood actors, musicians and businessmen in the world. Mr. Shah had the honor of taking Hollywood “A” list legend John Travolta to Tampa, Florida to attend the Bollywood Academy Awards in 2014.
- Premier Athletes Agency Founder February 2018 – Present – As an official licensed NBA Sports Agent (one of approximately only 700 licensed NBA Sports Agents in the world), Mr. Shah is helping to expand the NBA into India, the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia. Mr. Shah is also in talks with numerous blue chip players coming out of college along with current top level NBA players for athlete management and marketing purposes..
- City Drive Partner May 2017 – Present – City Drive produces the popular American television show Landmarks Live. On Landmarks Live the world’s biggest singers and bands are taken to landmark destinations around the world and their tourist activities as well as their performances are showcased at the locations. Season One of the Landmarks Live television series featured Andrea Bocelli in Sardinia, Italy, Will.I.am and the Black Eyed Peas in England, Alicia Keys in Harlem, New York, Brad Paisley at West Virginia University, the Foo Fighters at the Acropolis in Greece and many other productions. Landmarks also completed the biggest live entertainment event of 2020 with its production of the live performance by the legendary band KISS at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai on New Year’s Eve 2020.
- Global Tech Enabler Forum Founder and Executive VP June 2020 – Present – The GTEF is an organization that hosts webinars and seminars involving world leaders discussing matters that involve global cooperation and assistance. The GTEF has partnered with the United Nations (UNAIDS) and the Columbia School of Business to host the first webinar. Matters of discussion include Covid-19 and Post Covid-19 pandemic issues, climate change, global trade and commerce, environmental issues, etc. .
- QYK Brands CMO Years 2019 to 2021 – QYK is a US manufacturing company making EPA approved disinfectant wipes, FDA approved sanitizing wipes and patented supplement tablets for a variety of purposes ranging from beauty supplements to gut supplements. Mr. Shah has introduced QYK’s products to large hospital networks as well as the biggest retail chains in the world including Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, and Kroger’s. Mr. Shah has also introduced QYK’s products to various government agencies through his access to top decision makers in the state of California as well as US federal agencies including the US Veterans Administration, US Defense Logistics Association (DLA), and HUD.
- Omreal Founder May 2015 – Present – Omreal specializes in purchasing large scale off market commercial real estate projects. Mr. Shah is a licensed Real Estate Broker as well as licensed General Contractor in the state of California.
- Partner in Global Business Ventures – Mr. Shah engages in global import export, as well as global LNG and Oil transactions leveraging his strong governmental relationships in the United States, India, Africa, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- Proactiff Digital Healthcare Strategic Advisor April 2021 – Present – Proactiff is a comprehensive medical technology platform that is fully enabled by Artificial Intelligence and connects wearable technology with artificial intelligence, telemedicine and machine learning. With Proactiff, Mr. Shah has facilitated and assisted in the negotiation and development of numerous medical systems and platforms for Proactiff both in the US, Africa, China and India. Included in this group is the introduction and facilitation of a deal with a top 30 company in the world representing a multi-hundred billion dollar market cap. Also included in this group are large IPA (Independent Medical Association) groups representing thousands of healthcare professionals across the United States as well as large multinational managed healthcare and insurance companies covering millions of lives. Mr. Shah has also facilitated the deals and negotiations with the NFL to help propel the sports division of Proactiff Healthcare.
- Healthisoil Strategic Advisor February 2021 – Present – Healthisoil is a Soil Health technology company with a machine called Bhusiri which takes Agricultural Waste such as corn husks, cotton stem, dry leaves, brush, etc. and through Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulates the decomposition process of the waste into organic manure so that instead of the decomposition happening in its normal 60-90 days, through Bhusiri the decomposition process happens in only Minutes. Mr. Shah has facilitated and assisted in the negotiation and development of deals for Healthisoil with the soil health and food security sector of numerous top companies in the US. He has also introduced and assisted with the negotiation of the development deals for Healthisoil with the top royal family/business sectors in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well as with the top business/political sectors in numerous countries including India, Costa Rica, Panama, Zimbabwe, Canada and Mexico.
- Bevtech Strategic Advisor December 2020 – Present- Bevtech is a US manufacturing company making home beverage machines for cold carbonated and non-carbonated drinks. Mr. Shah’s duties include ensuring highly productive relationships and partnerships for the benefit of the organization. Mr. Shah has introduced athletes and celebrities to the company for branding purposes, introduced top nutraceutical and vitamin companies for beverage creation, introducing globally popular alcohol and non-alcohol beverage brands for syrup co-packing purposes, introduced “A” level business contacts to the company for Board of Advisor positions, and introduced top US and foreign investors to the company.
- Hollywood.Tech, LLC Founder May 2018 – Present – Mr. Shah is an early stage investor in metaverse companies as well as engaged in the negotiation and creation of NFT’s (Non-fungible Tokens) involving US celebrities, athletes, foundations and corporate brands. Mr. Shah has also advised one of the most coveted companies in the space of Crypto, Blockchain, Web3, Metaverse and Blockchain gaming and on behalf of them has facilitated and assisted in the negotiation and development of deals with some of the premier companies in the world for the purposes of acquisition.
- Millions of Milkshakes Founder Years 2007 to 2014 – Mr. Shah was the co-founder of the world famous milkshake bar franchise, Millions of Milkshakes. After the launch of the flagship store in West Hollywood, California, Millions of Milkshakes was successfully launched in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2011, and later in Bahrain and Kuwait in 2013 and Shanghai, China in 2014. Reality super star Kim Kardashian accompanied Mr. Shah and his partner for the opening and launch of Millions of Milkshakes in all three Middle East countries, Paris Hilton and Zendeya attended the Shanghai launch, and each grand opening launch became worldwide news.
- Hollywood.TV Founder Years 2004 to 2014 – Mr. Shah was the co-founder of highly popular Hollywood.TV who’s breaking news celebrity content was a daily television feature and whose content was globally viewed by an estimated two billion people. Justin Bieber attended the grand opening launch of Hollywood.TV in Brazil. Hollywood.TV’s celebrity content became a daily staple on The Insider and Entertainment Tonight on CBS as well as Extra and Access Hollywood on NBC. Hollywood.TV was at the forefront along with TMZ of the celebrity content “breaking news” daily feed craze on the Internet. Hollywood.TV’s single most watched breaking news feed to the world was its worldwide exclusive first on the scene video coverage of the death of Michael Jackson.
- The Law Offices of Paresh A. Shah Founder Years 1995 to 2007 – Mr. Shah represented thousands of people and both small and large corporations, allowing them to receive their immigration benefits in the United States. Mr. Shah was also at the forefront of lobbying immigration policy at the highest political levels and he personally met with and discussed vital 245(I) Green Card policies, H-1b Visa policies as well as E Visa Policies and F-1 Student Visa recapture policies with President Clinton and President Bush during their presidencies. Mr. Shah sold his law practice in 2007.
Mr. Paresh Shah takes incredible pride in his quality of work and attention to detail. Through this process, he has partnered with some of the most disruptive companies in the world including those engaged in Artificial Intelligence, Electric Vehicles, the Home Beverage sector, Hollywood and Hollywood media, the Metaverse and NFT’s, Bollywood, Commercial Real Estate, NBA Sports Agency, and in many other companies in cutting edge industries.
Mr. Shah is a licensed Attorney in the State of California as well as a licensed Real Estate Broker, General Contractor and NBA Sports Agent.
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