Executive Team

Executive Director

Hatul Shah

Hatul graduated as a Pharmacist in 2002 from Kings’ College London and pursued a career in Community Pharmacy immediately after his Pre-Registration.

In 2003 he incorporated Sigma’s first retail Pharmacy with a friend and has jointly grown a retail chain with partners to 14 stores.

However, Hatul’s core role now is as an Executive Director within Sigma, working with his team to successfully transition the business, as well as taking the family entity forward. Within Sigma he is the Responsible Person and overlooks the QA and product development segment, with a keen interest in innovating the modelling the operation and logistics in community pharmacy.

Outside of Sigma, he is a devoted husband and father to 2 daughters. Constantly looking for a challenge, Hatul is about to embark upon mentoring and lecturing students at Kings’ College London, at their new business school.

Earlier this year, Hatul graduated with an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School and is now utilising any spare time he has by following his other passion, Tottenham Hotspur.

Executive Director

Bhavin Shah

Bhavin joined the company in 2009 to manage the export department, and was appointed to the board in 2011.  In addition to managing the export department, Bhavin oversee’s the Clinical Trials supply of medicines as well as his role as evolved to the Chief Financial Officer for the Company’s finances.

Bhavin graduated from the University of Warwick in 2004 with a degree in Economics.  That same year, he joined Deloitte (specialising in Corporate Tax) where he then qualified as a Chartered Accountant before joining the family business.

Executive Director

Rajiv Shah

Rajiv graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2007 with a Masters degree in Pharmacy.  After successfully completing his pharmacy registration with Alliance Boots in 2008, and leaving life as a radio and club DJ behind, Rajiv joined Sigma in 2009 heading up their new business divisions.  He was appointed to the board in 2011 and served as the firm’s Sales Director to the independent retail pharmacy sector till 2018.

Having been involved in the creation of new services such as SigConnect and overseeing all aspects of the company’s IT and innovation initiatives, Rajiv became Sigma’s head of Generics Strategy and Procurement in 2019.

June 2018 saw Rajiv complete his MBA from Warwick Business School.

Executive Director

Paras Shah

Paras graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in International Business Management in 2011.  The following year, he joined the company as a junior buyer in Sigma’s growing over the counter (OTC) department.  Working alongside Kamal, he has gained invaluable insight into the OTC market and currently overseas all of the buying.  Paras was appointed to the board of Directors in 2014, joining his fellow cousin brothers.

Paras is currently is his third and final year studying at Warwick Business School to acquire his Executive MBA.

Executive Director

Raj Haria

Raj Graduated in 1985 with a BSc in Management from the University of Michigan, USA.

He joined his family retail pharmacy business before relocating to the UK in 2002 with his family.

Raj joined Nucare plc Buying Group where he worked with the board to manage the 35 strong pharmacy retail group.  Raj was closely involved in the hand over after being acquired by Phoenix.

He joined Avicenna in 2008 as their Commercial Director and was instrumental in growing their membership and worked with CEO to grow shareholder value including start of their retail pharmacy group.

Raj joined Sigma in August 2018 as Commercial Director and is actively involved with the ‘second generation’ Directors in moving the business forward, to the next level.

He loves trekking, travelling and watching sports. He’s also an avid Manchester United fan. He also loves spending time with his wife to create that balanced lifestyle now that the kids have left home.