Shahed is a leader of Leap by McKinsey, helping institutions across the healthcare spectrum engage in business building and growth efforts. With deep expertise in healthcare affordability and quality, he serves regional and national payers, investors, health-services organizations, and technology companies by helping radically transform operating models, drive business growth, improve performance, make wise investment decisions, and build long-term capabilities.
In addition to his client work, Shahed also builds McKinsey’s knowledge base on the healthcare industry, incubating and delivering market-backed intelligence and insights vital to informing investment decisions, growth strategy, and business building efforts.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- leading business building and growth efforts for an employer-benefits-focused healthcare-services company, with a goal of achieving five-fold revenue growth in three years
- leading an analytics-driven medical cost transformation for a large multistate payer organization across payment integrity, utilization management, and care management that resulted in more than $300 million in impact
- advising a private-equity investor on investment themes in healthcare affordability and specialty care
- achieving a five-percentage-point improvement in combined ratio for a midsize regional insurance carrier
