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About Afton

For businesses that have outgrown their current setup.

Based in Houston, TX
Industries Energy, construction & manufacturing
Who we work with 5–100 person businesses with real operational complexity
Why we're here

Built for the businesses in the middle.

There's a gap in how operational help gets delivered. Large consulting firms are built for enterprise clients — expensive, slow, and staffed with junior analysts once the partner leaves. Generalists don't have the industry depth to understand what's actually broken in a supply chain, an engineering process, or a manufacturing operation. And most small businesses don't have the internal resources to fix it on their own.

Afton was founded in Houston by operators who spent years inside large organizations and kept seeing the same problem: businesses with serious operational complexity and no access to the people who could actually fix it.

We built Afton to fill that gap — four practice areas, one team, and a commitment to staying involved from first assessment through the last deliverable. We don't send a report and disappear. We show up, figure out what's broken, and stay until it's fixed.

The team

The people behind the work.

Malak Shah
Malak Shah
CEO & Co-Founder

17+ years across Fortune 500 and startups. Mechanical engineering and operations. Carnegie Mellon MBA, LSU B.S. Leads engineering and supply chain.

A global business leader with 17+ years across Fortune 500 companies and startups. Background in mechanical engineering and operations, with an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from LSU. Leads Afton's engineering and supply chain practice.

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Dr. Yesha Patel
Dr. Yesha Patel
Co-Founder

Hospitalist physician, 8+ years clinical experience. Wharton Executive MBA. Systems-level thinker focused on process design and workflow optimization.

A family medicine hospitalist with 8+ years of clinical experience, currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Wharton. Brings a data-driven, systems-level approach to operational problem-solving — focused on process design, workflow optimization, and healthcare delivery.

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Riley Grden
Riley Grden
Business Dev & Ops Lead

Business development, client relationships, and internal ops. Master's in Business. Building the processes and partnerships that let Afton scale.

Drives business development, client relationships, and internal operations at Afton. Background in strategic planning and operations with a Master's in Business. Focused on building the processes and partnerships that let Afton scale without losing what makes it work.

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Jeho Solis
Jeho Solis
Engineering Lead

10 years in oil and gas. Project management, mechanical engineering, field coordination. Leads execution from drawing packages through commissioning.

10 years of experience in oil and gas, specializing in project management, mechanical engineering, and field coordination. Leads Afton's engineering execution — from drawing packages and supplier qualification through field installation and commissioning.

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Let's get to work

Let's figure out what's slowing you down.

30 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation about where your operation is getting stuck.