Darius is a partner in McKinsey’s banking unit with more than 10 years of experience leading large-scale strategy and performance transformations with regional and global financial institutions.
Examples of his recent work include:
- helping lead a holistic strategy and performance-improvement journey for a US regional bank, resulting in a significant profitability improvement and better customer and employee experience
- aiding a go-to-market redesign for a US regional bank, reshaping its approach across product proposition, marketing, sales effectiveness, digital, and branch model
- developing a post-merger strategy for a US regional bank, laying out the three-year value creation agenda and associated business and technology investments
- designing a digital bank value proposition, based on deep ethnographic and quantitative customer insights, and leveraging fintech partnerships to accelerate time-to-market
- redesigning investor relations for a US regional bank, dissecting the investment community’s perception of the equity thesis, and crafting an updated investor relations story
- helping lead a holistic performance transformation for a US payments company, delivering substantial improvements in profitability, customer experience, and innovation capabilities
Darius holds a bachelor’s in chemistry, physics, and mathematics from Harvard University where he graduated summa cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa), a master’s in physics from Harvard University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar (Highest Distinction).