Kia Javanmardian is Senior Partner at McKinsey, where he serves insurance carriers, brokers, wealth managers, and other financial institutions, primarily within the United States. Javanmardian has extensive experience in advising clients on issues related to strategy, operations, business building, and core-business transformation. Javanmardian leads McKinsey’s work in property and casualty insurance in North America. He also helps lead the firm’s research and thinking on underwriting, pricing, analytics-driven businesses, distribution strategy, and sales-force effectiveness, across different parts of the value chain within the financial-services space.