G. B. Shah Commerce College is managed by Ahmedabad Kelavani Trust, a well-known educational trust in the city with a long history of service to the cause of education. The trust was founded in 1964 by a visionary educationist cum philanthropist Late Shri Rasikbhai G. Shah sir with an aim of catering affordable and qualitative education to all strata of society. The trust has always maintained higher standards of qualitative education with a missionary zeal for almost last six decades. Right from its inception, transparency and innovative practices have been the major assets of the trust. Carrying the legacy still forward the present leadership also strives to maintain the values and principles that have been instilled by their predecessors while adapting to the changing times and needs of the society.