Kevin is a senior partner in McKinsey’s New York office. He cofounded our international Risk & Resilience Practice and is the global leader of our risk advanced analytics and cybersecurity efforts. Previously, he directed our work in corporate and investment banking in the Americas while coleading it globally.
For more than two decades, Kevin has helped senior executives at leading financial institutions solve their most challenging strategic, risk, regulatory, and analytical problems. Before joining McKinsey, he served as COO of an emerging markets private equity firm, practiced corporate law as an attorney at one of the premier US law firms, and was cofounder and CFO of a targeted recruiting services firm.
Kevin is a respected thought leader in the industry and his perspectives have been cited in leading publications such as American Banker, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.
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Published work
“How financial institutions can improve their governance of gen AI,” McKinsey & Company, March 2025
“Scaling gen AI in banking: Choosing the best operating model,” McKinsey & Company, March 2024
“War in Ukraine: Twelve disruptions changing the world, one year on,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023
Delivering impact from US green bank financing, McKinsey & Company, April 2023
“War in Ukraine: Twelve disruptions changing the world,” McKinsey & Company, May 2022
“War in Ukraine: Lives and livelihoods, lost and disrupted,” McKinsey & Company, March 2022
“What the draft European Union AI regulations mean for business,” McKinsey & Company, August 2021
“Looking beyond the pandemic: Could the world economy gain more than it lost to COVID-19?,” McKinsey & Company, June 2021
“Getting to know—and manage—your biggest AI risks,” McKinsey & Company, May 2021
“A unique time for chief risk officers in insurance,” McKinsey & Company, December 2020
“Banking system resilience in the time of COVID-19,” McKinsey & Company, July 2020
“Crushing coronavirus uncertainty: The big ‘unlock’ for our economies,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020
“Stability in the storm: US banks in the pandemic and the next normal,” McKinsey & Company, May 2020
“In the tunnel: Executive expectations about the shape of the coronavirus crisis,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“How chief data officers can navigate the COVID-19 response and beyond,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“Safeguarding our lives and our livelihoods: The imperative of our time,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020
“Leadership in the time of coronavirus: COVID-19 response and implications for banks,” McKinsey & Company, March 2020
“The value for insurers in better management of nonfinancial risk,” McKinsey & Company, November 2019
“Derisking machine learning and artificial intelligence,” McKinsey & Company, February 2019
“Assessing and addressing the implications of new financial regulations for the US banking industry,” McKinsey Working Papers on Risk, March 2011 (PDF–684 KB)
“A better way to measure bank risk,” McKinsey Quarterly, April 2010
“A board perspective on enterprise risk management,” McKinsey Working Papers on Risk, February 2010 (PDF–871 KB)
“Capital ratios and financial distress: Lessons from the crisis,” McKinsey Working Papers on Risk, December 2009 (PDF–340 KB)
“The risk revolution,” McKinsey Working Papers on Risk, September 2008 (PDF–2.65 MB)
“The new arsenal of risk management,” Harvard Business Review, September 2008
“Owning the right risks” Harvard Business Review, September 2008
Past experience
International Equity Partners
COO
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Corporate Attorney
Crimson & Brown Associates
Co-founder and CFO
Education
Harvard Law School
JD
Harvard University
AB, economics
