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Akshay Kapur

Senior PartnerChicago

Serves leading healthcare organizations on strategy, growth, M&A, and performance transformations

Over the course of more than 15 years, Akshay has served clients across healthcare, including payers, pharmacy-benefit managers, health systems, service providers, brokers, and large employers. His clients include publicly traded, mutual, and not-for-profit organizations.

Akshay specializes in corporate and business-unit strategy development, M&A, and performance transformation. Within healthcare, he leads McKinsey’s commercial and employer-benefit services segments, focusing on tangible, multilever performance-improvement actions across growth, medical cost, and administrative cost.

Akshay is also a leader in McKinsey’s Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. In addition to performing client work, he leads McKinsey’s major pre-eminent forums, including Global Business Leaders Forum and Board Forums.

Outside the firm, Akshay serves on the Leadership Council of Civic Consulting Alliance in Chicago.

Published work

Reimagining US employer health benefits with innovative plan designs,” McKinsey & Company, October 2024

The gathering storm: The threat to employee healthcare benefits,” McKinsey & Company, October 2022

Past Experience

Booz & Company
Associate partner

Education

University of Michigan
MBA