Rising Stars shine bright future on industry Print Kaivalya "KD" Shah has degrees in industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering and instrumental piano. Shah was born in India — he was introduced to plastics there — and is now an industrial engineer at Rockford, Ill.-based Pyramid Plastics Inc. Nichole Freeman started working at the Prischak family-owned Lake Erie Speedway as a food and beverage supervisor and worked her way up to corporate marketing manager of the Plastek Group, founded by Joseph Prischak, in Erie, Pa. Shah and Freeman are just two of our Rising Stars class of 2021 — our largest group ever since