Asheet Mehta
Independent Director, Piramal Enterprises Ltd.
Asheet Mehta is a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company\u2019s New York Office, where he has served a broad range of players across the financial services industry and the public sector. He previously led the Financial Services Practice in the Americas and Co-led the Financial Services Practice globally. He has also been a member of the Firm\u2019s Shareholders Council (McKinsey\u2019s board) and holds various other leadership roles, including leading an effort to serve disruptive industries and earlystage companies.
Mr. Mehta has deep expertise in financial services having served leading insurers, wealth and asset managers, payments companies and both regional and local banks. Client engagement topics have ranged from corporate strategy, organization, marketing, and operations/ technology as well as risk and regulation across the full range of wholesale and consumer financial products and services.
Working together with executive teams, Mr. Mehta supports efforts to address a full spectrum of strategic and operational challenges. He has helped restructure organizations, boost the performance of sales and marketing, and rethink operations, including technology platforms and risk and regulation approaches. He has also advised both new and established companies as they navigate the market turbulence caused by rapidly changing digital technologies, evolving consumer expectations, and unpredictable regulatory frameworks. His work has ranged from corporate strategy and assisting with large scale transformations to functional performance improvement and organizational effectiveness.
Mr. Mehta has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and an M.B.A. with High Honors in Finance and Production Management from the University of Chicago. He is currently on the board of the Asia Society and the board of visitors of Columbia University\u2019s School of Engineering and Applied Science. In addition, he is on the board of CreditEnable, a startup focused on SME lending. He was formerly President and board member of Partnership with Children, a not-for-profit that serves at-risk children in New York City\u2019s Public Schools.
