Ketan Shah

Partner at McKinsey & Company

Palatine, Illinois

Overview 

Ketan Shah is a Partner at McKinsey and Company, where he serves as the Global co-lead for the Supply Chain Planning Practice and Head of the North America Operations Excellence Program. With a background in Operations strategy and transformation, he has led initiatives in network optimization and acquisition integration, showcasing expertise in management consulting and cross-functional team leadership. Highlights of Ketan's career include his leadership roles in driving operational excellence at McKinsey, where he has successfully overseen supply chain planning practices globally and led the Operations Excellence Program in North America. His diverse experience spans from managing director roles in private companies to project engineering positions, demonstrating a well-rounded background in strategy and operational management.

Work Experience 

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McKinsey & Company

  • Partner; Head SCM Connections; Global co-lead Plan Service line; Lead NA OEP

    2021 - Current

    Identified shortlist of companies to acquire, completed due diligence, sponsored and led the acquisition of SCM Connections in to McKinsey. Led a successful integration and currently innovating SC digitization offerings to clients - Led a highly impactful bespoke digitization of supply chain for a major advanced industry client transforming all core supply chain areas and creating a "North Star" vision - Led a control tower to mitigate the impact of supply chain disruptions - Continued building of partnership with SC software vendors - Co-Chair of 2 different people committees

  • Partner; NA lead for Supply Chain Plan Service line; Lead NA OEP (Ops Excellence Program)

    2017 - 2022

    Leading Supply Chain Planning service line; SC technology alliances with leading SC software vendors; Leading McKinsey's internal training program for operations - Led operations turnaround for Consumer healthcare company - Led SC digital transformation for Food Company and for a Medical product company - Led multi-year transformation in logistics and planning for a medical device company - Led network strategy for a Food and Beverage company

  • Partner & Deliver service line lead

    2013 - 2017

    NA Supply Chain leader - Founded and led Physical Flow and Logistics service line (now called Deliver) - Led SC turnaround for a major telecom company, a major cosmetics company - Led post merger integrations for companies in lifesciences industry - Led post merger integration and subsequent synergy capture for companies in Chemical industry - Led merger management for Food and beverage companies and subsequent network strategy

  • Partner

    2011 - 2013

    Client development; Led client engagements. Highlights: - SC strategy for whitegoods company - "best project award" - Site strategy for contract manufacturer

  • Associate Principal

    2008 - 2010

    Leading multiple engagements across clients and operational topics - Highlights: - Multi-site manufacturing transformation at a Pharmaco - Due diligence, Chemicals distributor - Rapid Supply Chain turnaround for an FMCG company - "worst to first" SC performance

  • Engagement Manager

    2006 - 2008

    Led engagements to improve operational performance of many clients, e.g. - Led operational strategy, diagnostic and multi-site transformation of a major pharmaco - Led end to end supply chain transformation for a large distributor including network strategy, warehouse transformation, inventory optimization

  • Associate

    2003 - 2006

    Helped several clients, across different industry sectors, solve challenging cross functional business issues

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

mckinsey.com
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McKinsey & Company

  • Summer Associate

    2002 - 2002

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

mckinsey.com

Megha Insulations Pvt. Ltd.

  • Managing Director

    1998 - 2001

    Took over as CEO and led the turnaround of the company working creatively with financial institutions

  • Director

    1995 - 1998

    Built business case, secured term loan and working capital, designed, built and commissioned new manufacturing plant in record time and under budget

Sona Fibres

  • General Manager

    1994 - 1995

    Ran operations for the company (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales)

CTL Engineering Inc.

  • Project Engineer

    1992 - 1994

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