Somesh Khanna

Somesh Khanna Biopic

Co-Executive Chairman

Apexon

Director, KeyCorp

Somesh Khanna is currently the Co-Executive Chairman at Goldman Sachs portfolio company - Apexon, Board Member at Key Bank and Persado Inc., Advisor at ASAPP Inc.., Aboard Inc. and Banco Credit de Peru (Yape); Senior Partner Emeritus and Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company; and a Limited Partner Advisor at NYCA. He is a leader with over 35 years of financial services strategy, business building, operating, and client management experience as a management consultant, and prior to that as an entrepreneur and commercial banker. He has a proven track record of recruiting, managing, and leading high-performing, high-impact individuals and teams.

At McKinsey, Somesh co-led their Global Banking Practice. He previously led Digital Financial Services (across Banking and Insurance) for McKinsey globally. In this capacity, he led the development of McKinsey's capabilities in digital strategy, digitally enabled business model transformations, digital marketing and sales, and large-scale digitization and automation programs for financial services clients. Somesh also served Banking and Insurance clients more broadly on topics ranging from strategy and organization to sales and marketing, operations, technology, and risk management.

Somesh led McKinsey’s New York office from 2011 to 2012, and prior to that McKinsey’s Property & Casualty Insurance Practice from 2009—2011.

Prior to McKinsey, he served as CEO of a new business at eCredit aimed at digitizing the trade receivables securitization process in partnership withJ.P. Morgan.

He also served as a Director on the Board of the Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts, New York, and Paul Newman's SeriousFun Children’s Network.

Somesh holds a Masters Degree in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois; a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; a Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India.

Somesh lives in New York City.