Yale School of Management - Humam Sakhnini '01

"It was at Yale SOM that I first saw the power of combining great analytical thinking and team work. SOM provided the training ground for assembling and leading high performing teams, a key theme in every position I have held since my graduation."

Humam Sakhnini is executive vice president of corporate strategy and business development at Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest independent publisher of Interactive Entertainment. He oversees corporate strategy, M&A activities and new business development.

Prior to joining Activision Blizzard, Humam was a partner with McKinsey & Company’s Global Media and Entertainment Practice, based in New York. While at McKinsey, he served senior executives at the world’s leading media companies, and was focused on strategy, marketing, and sales transformation. Humam’s work blended long term business strategy with actionable operating plans to deliver bottom-line impact for his clients.

Prior to McKinsey and Yale SOM, Humam founded and co-led ISGroup, a financial technology firm that provided technology solutions to mutual funds and hedge funds. He also worked as an analyst at BMO Nesbitt Burns, Canada’s largest investment bank and brokerage. Prior to Nesbitt, Humam worked as an Economist at the Ministry of Finance in Canada where he worked on a variety of fiscal and monetary policies.

Humam holds a BA (Honors) in Economics from the University of Western Ontario (Canada), an MA in Economics from Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada), and an MBA from the Yale School of Management, specializing in strategy and finance.