Kia Javanmardian

Senior Partner, Chicago

Advises insurance companies and other financial institutions on how to use emerging technologies to transform their core business operations, build new products and services, and respond to shifting customer preferences

About

Kia serves insurance carriers, brokers, wealth managers, and other financial institutions, primarily within the United States. A senior partner, he has extensive experience in advising clients on issues related to strategy, operations, business building, and core-business transformation.

Kia 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.

Examples of Kia’s client work include the following:

supporting the development of an analytics-as-a-service business unit for a leading insurance carrier
leading a top insurance carrier’s agile business transformation, including building and deploying a portfolio of digitally enabled products to reinvent and grow the core business
helping a leading retail life-insurance carrier revamp its distribution strategy and design a future-state operating model to support the organization in moving beyond life-insurance sales into financial planning
reengineering the pricing and underwriting analytics for a major personal- and commercial-line insurance carrier
advising a top personal-insurance carrier on how to use digital, analytics, and consumer-driven design to redesign the go-to-market strategy for a core business
using lean management to transform the product function of a top property- and casualty-insurance carrier and drive improvements in cycle time, quality, and pricing accuracy

Outside of work, Kia enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons.